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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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In Vim, the 5-key on the numeric keypad inserts a line above the current line with "E"

While using Vim under Linux Mint 20.2 (with NumLock off), when I hit the NumPad center key (5), a line is inserted above the current line, a capital E appears, and I am left in Insert mode. I often mistakenly hit the 5 key when trying to navigate…
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How to change X and Y coordinates of window without recreating it

Suppose I created a window by newwin() with cordinates X and Y = (0 and 0) but now I have changed my mind and want to change X and Y coords without recreating window using newwin() then how to do it ? My main goal is to recreate box() with new X and…
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Fix for tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified when running a remote shell script using SSH

I have a nodetimecheck.sh file on a server which has a command like this echo tput setaf 2; echo -n " What is my node's local time: "; tput setaf 7; date When I login to my server with SSH and execute ./nodetimecheck.sh it displays…
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color list in a general way

I thought this might be easy but not so much I want to color the output of a command based on delimeters, in my case apt-show-versions -u and want to color the packages' names based on the colon seperator, or on the word 'to'. It seems to run into…
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Run two xterm commands at the same time in BASH

I am trying to run two different programs in xterm windows from the same automation script. My current code looks like this: #!/bin/bash/sh echo "STARTING PROGRAM ONE" # change into correct directory cd ~/myProjects/ProgramOne xterm -e…
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AIX putty terminal color using tput

I am trying to set colors using tput setb or setab function but I am unable to get colors. On the positive side tput bold , underline like functions are working. I am unable to find any reasons for setb function issue. print $(tput bold)"Text is…
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Maintainable approach for generating a machine-specific PS1 Prompt

To help myself remember that I am logged into a different system, quickly and visually, I use different colors for the \h field in the Bash PS1 environment variable. I am looking for a way to reliably generate the PS1, tied to a static…
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Execute script in new terminal window on hard drive plugging

I would like to execute a backup script with rsync everytime a specific hard drive is plugged to my computer on ubuntu 16.04. However I would like the user to be prompted if the backup should run or not and then he should be able to see the rsync…
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Unable to capture the exit code of ngspice, running in xterm window, in a PyQt4 script

I want to run ngspice through a xterm window in an application written in PyQt4. But I am not able to capture the exit signal of the ngspice process. I learned how to do the same for unix shell commands from the following link. But when I replace…
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Getting point symbols by pressing backspace, delete, up,

I have 2 local users on one host, both running with /bin/bash, I compared the env and locale settings and both are the same. But I still get these symbols "•••" on the test user while I'm pressing backspace, delete or arrow keys in vim if I'm on top…
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copy entire file to clipboard (but not default, +, or * registry) in Linux xterm

I am trying to copy 13,000 lines of code from a file on a remote computer to a text file on my own computer but am having no luck. I am working on a Linux virtual box and am ssh'd into another computer where the file is. If I highlight with my mouse…
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Emacs adds something on the top of every file

When I open files with emacs it adds 12;rgb:1c1c/1c1c/1c1c on the top. How can I prevent this? I have installed emacs on a clean reinstalled debian system. Emacs: GNU Emacs 24.4.1 Terminal Emulator: MobaXterm Personal Edition v7.7 System (local):…
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C++ linux resize Xterm

I'm trying to resize Xterm window after created, whitout Xlib because I tried and it's bugged. (if you want to know more about that take a look here :…
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Modify .bashrc and .Xdefaults

I know there mush be a million answers to this question but since all the answers I get are much in depth then I address this simple questions: I would like to modify my .bashrc and .Xdefaults such that instead of gray background and black font to…
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login from cygwin to Mac OS X using xterm issue

open cygwin shell run ssh -Y user@MACOSXSERVER No xauth data using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding <-- Warning login MACOSXSERVER OK set DISPLAY=CYGWINIP:0.0 xterm & And I get the following error Xlib: connection to "CYGWINIP:0.0"…
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