Jan 14, 2012 · Also, gnome-terminal font looks spectacular and you don't have to do xterm -fa font -fs 10 before hand after hitting [Alt][F2]. I guess you could setup gnome-terminal to open up xterm like that and exit. Another downfall of xterm is its lightweight-ness. It's archaic; it's like vim vs gedit. Unless you don't have a modern computer, just don't ...

Jul 9, 2012 · XTerm.vt100.translations: #override \n\ Ctrl <Key> minus: smaller-vt-font() \n\ Ctrl <Key> plus: larger-vt-font() If you use uxterm, be sure to use UXTerm.vt100.translations instead. Then you can use ctrl + + to increase font size or ctrl + - to decrease the size, just like you can with ctrl + right-click and selecting one of the other font ...

Aug 5, 2015 · By definition xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. Since Ubuntu by default relies on X11 graphical server for any graphics - that's why xterm comes with Ubuntu. Now, unless you manually change it, both default terminal and xterm should run your bash shell, which is what actually interprets commands. Without shell, terminal ...

May 3, 2015 · Open xterm: xterm & The above configuration does four things: Select and copy text into xterm: Hold the Shift key. Click the left mouse button. Select your text. Click the right mouse button to add it to the clipboard. Paste text into xterm by pressing Ctrl+Shift+V. Show the scrollbar. Customize the font.

Apr 30, 2015 · xterm*allowTitleOps: false. xterm*Title: yourtitle (if you want a custom default title for all xterm windows) Again, if the .Xresources file doesn't exist, just create one. Last of all, use the xrdb -merge .Xresources command to make the changes take effect immediately. You should now be able to use the -T and -n options for any new xterm windows.

Jan 9, 2013 · Xterm uses cut buffers, not the standard X11 clipboard selection used for standard copy-paste that gnome-terminal and most other Linux programs now use. But if you start xterm like this: xterm -ls -xrm 'XTerm*selectToClipboard: true'& then selections are available via the standard clipboard.

May 29, 2016 · This is likely due to either a misconfiguration issue or you have multiple displays. As can be seen in the xterm manpage (man xterm) you can set the display using the -display flag:-display display This option specifies the X server to contact; see X(7).

Nov 5, 2016 · Also, I want the colour change to be permanent not just during that session. And one more thing I cannot execute any commands during that session because that Xterm window is being launched by some other program (to be specific that program is "Code Blocks"). Please help me sort out this issue. Xterm screenshot:

Oct 21, 2020 · Yes, its definitely possible. When you use bash -c by itself, it corresponds to "Read and execute commands from the first non-option argument command_string, then exit" You can have bash start in interactive shell mode with the bash -i options, which will automatically read your .bashrc configuration file, as well as should also give you command history access wth …

Dec 19, 2016 · First, you need to tell xterm to allow it to happen at all, because by default it ignores requests by hosted programs to resize the window. Add this to your ~/.Xdefaults: xterm*allowWindowOps: true For this to take effect, you either have to log out, or run: xrdb ~/.Xdefaults Then launch a new xterm, and in your bash script: echo -ne "\e[8;30;30t"