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xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window System.

In computing, xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System. A user can have many different invocations of xterm running at once on the same display, each of which provides independent input/output for the process running in it (normally the process is a Unix shell).

xterm originated prior to the X Window System. It was originally written as a stand-alone terminal emulator for the VAXStation 100 (VS100) by Mark Vandevoorde, a student of Jim Gettys, in the summer of 1984, when work on X started. It rapidly became clear that it would be more useful as part of X than as a standalone program, so it was retargeted to X. As Gettys tells the story, "part of why xterm's internals are so horrifying is that it was originally intended that a single process be able to drive multiple VS100 displays."

After many years as part of the X reference implementation, around 1996 the main line of development then shifted to XFree86 (which itself forked from X11R6.3), and it is presently actively maintained by Thomas Dickey.

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How open default terminal instead of using `xterm` ? is it safe to use ${TERM}?

I want to run steam on linux, and I don't want to install xterm, there are two moments when does it want xterm echo -e "$*" >$tmpfile xterm -T "$title" -e "cat $tmpfile; echo -n 'Press enter to continue: '; read input" rm -f $tmpfile and # Fall…
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Display output from program called between backticks

For an exercise about termcaps, I have to write a program that will display a list of items and let the user to select some of them. The program will then output the selected items separated with a space. The program can be called like this: $>…
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spawn a new xterm window

When I am using Bitvise Tunnelier and I spawn a new xterm window connecting to our sun station everything works nicely. We have visual slick edit installed on the sun station and I have been instructed to open it using the command vs&. When I do…
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xterm: Can't execvp: No file or directory

I am writing a C program in linux. I have created a process and forking it to create a child. I want to run another program in this child so I am using execlp. But, this program must run in an independent window. if (…
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Caught in an infinite loop solving reader writer prob

I am working on reader-writer problem. Algorithm wise, i believe the solution is ok. The only problem that I am facing is opening multiple readers/writer windows using xterm. When I run the program it goes into an infinite loop and it crashed the…
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Xterm stalls on command line, XQuartz crashes and reboots repeatedly

Up until a couple days ago, I was using Gimp on OSX 10.7 normally with no issues. Then I installed Inkscape, but was unable to start it because of a language settings issue (the system is currently set to Japanese). I installed XQuartz to see if…
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csh script run from Java GUI crashes and freezes terminal

I have a script that I run from a Java GUI. It executes a SQL script and writes the results to a log file in the tmp directory. The rest of the script should open up an xterm and display the results of the output file to the screen. It creates the…
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open several xterm windows from script without closing

when I execute this script the terminals are opening and immediately closing, so I can't see the result. Nothing that I know helps. I'm using SunOS 5.9 and it's not my fault)) #!/bin/bash if [ -z "$1" ]; then echo "enter command" fi if [ -z "$2"…
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xterm on sles 11.2

I am trying to get xterm to work on sles 11.2. I did it recently on 10.3 and it was really simple but nothing works on 11.2. On 10.3 I installed xterm on the server and ran xming for windows on my local PC. Then from a putty went to SSH > X11 >…
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xterm active line screen position

Is it possible to configure the active line in an xterm window to appear somewhere other than the bottom of the screen? While there are advantages, my monitor is not positioned for the bottom of the screen to be most easily reachable. It conflicts…
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Auto login problems with slim

I have installed Arch and am having problems with the auto login options within slim.conf. I have installed the following X packages: xorg-server, xorg-xinit xorg-twm, xterm and for the graphics: xf86-video-fbdev I have also added a user and…
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Error while solving Project Euler sum number 3 in C++

This is my code : #include using namespace std; int main() { long int x = 1; long int res; while (x<600851475143) { x++; if(600851475143%x==0) { res=x; cout<
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Executing string sent from one terminal in another in Linux pseudo-terminal

Lets say I have one terminal where the output of "tty" is "/dev/pts/2" From another terminal, I want to send a command to the first terminal and execute it. Using: echo "ls" > "/dev/pts/2" only prints "ls" in the first terminal Is there a way to…
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Can I run 'xterm -e MyApp', and pass focus to the new xterm window?

If I run xterm -e MyApp in a terminal session, a new xterm window pops up running MyApp. I have to click on the new window to get focus. When I close MyApp, the window closes, but focus does not return to the original window. I am working on a Mac,…
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Bash: Script Calling Gnome Terminal Leads To Child Process Error?

I'm trying to have a script open a new terminal window, and then call another script in that terminal. I'm getting the error: There was an error creating the child process for this terminal I believe it has something to do with the calling script…
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