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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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Smarter viewing of program output in terminal - show/hide buttons for lower priority outputs, allowing drilldown of program output

Many of my programs output run-time information to the terminal, things like: running minimisation ----rep 10. val=2.30498 ----rep 20. val=1.98377 ----... ----... ----... ----rep 90. vsl=1.77921 …
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How to Open xterm window from a terminal and run a command in background from xterm?

My application tries to execute roots command "sudo ifup eth0" and "sudo ifdown eth0". But it returned an error "sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo". So, it requires a tty to execute the sudo commands. So, I tried to execute the commands…
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Sending commands from one xterm window to another with Python

So I have a Python app that starts different xterm windows and in one window after the operation is finished it asks the user "Do you want to use these settings? y/n". How can I send y to that xterm window, so that the user doesn't needs to type…
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what does the @d mean in ''xterm -display @d'

An existing .bat script running on Windows XP has a call to xterm with the flag '-display @d'. I need to alter the display value being passed through to xterm, to point to a different IP address. However, it would help to know what the @d currently…
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Execute a Bash Function in new Xterm window

Is there a way one can execute the bash function in the new XTERM window? Below is what I am trying to do function test(){ echo "Do some work" } Then inside my bash script, I am doing the following: export -f test xterm -title "Work1" -e "test"…
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How to customize URL interpretation on MobaXterm

I'm using MobaXterm for some time now (it's a really good tool), but i having some issues with the hyperlink interpretation on terminal. Sometimes i receive a link like this: https://XXXXX:1234/4529089718/l/?session=user%12345 But the terminal only…
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how to echo to a newly spawned xterm

I need to write a bash script, which spawn a new xterm window and echo something over there. I have tried echo "hello" | xterm &, which does not work... furthermore, is it possible to do any command on the new xterm?
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X11, sending an event with XSendEvent(3)

I embedded a X11 app (xterm) in a Motif window. All seems to work fine, but if I press a key when the pointer isn't above the embedded app, it doesn't get it. Trying to fix this, I changed the main loop of the main app. Now it's like this: …
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Cannot connect to X server (CentOS 7)

I am running a CentOS 7 VM using the AWS and my python code is facing this error: : cannot connect to X server Here are my settings: xterm xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: xterm: DISPLAY is not set echo $DISPLAY sudo cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config…
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How to create specific Qos rules?

I have the topology that is represented in the image: I want the hosts 1 and 2 to have high priority with max bandwidth 8mbps and the host(server) 4 to receive packets at maximum bandwidth of 4mbps. Host 3 is irrelevant for now. I have achieved the…
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speed up my console setup

I work on different branches of a big software project. For each branch I have a gnome-terminal with four tabs open: main shell to execute build commands in various modules (mvn) ./bin folder to re/launch the app-server tail -F sysout tail -F…
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Programmaticaly insert enter in xterm js

I've recently found xterm and node-pty which are great tools and have implemented them into my app. However, when I write to the terminal with xterm.write("something\r\n\") or xterm.writeln("something") the terminal goes to the next line but never…
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Identify xterm fonts being used and corresponding Cygwin package?

Over the decades, I've taken to painstakingly trying different fonts from different families to get a nice progression of sizes for xterm. The six that I found to be good in 2015 are prefixed by ~/.Xresources: below. Since Windows 7 became…
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Piping nginx -V to grep doesn't color matches

nginx/1.17.3, GNU grep 2.27 and xterm-256color capable terminal (Xfce terminal) for some reason doesn't provide colored matches in its output. I've tried this: nginx -V | grep brotli -o --color=always -C9999 nginx -V | grep -o --color=always -C9999…
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bash: how to take a screenshot of gnome-terminal/terminator/xterm's screen output

I want to capture the output of a linux command in a terminal like terminator/xterm But the output goes 3-4 pages scrolling. Just like in chrome we have an "Full page screen Capture" by https://gofullpage.com/ which can capture a webpage running…
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