I'm autostarting (from i3wm) an xterm and running a simple command exec xterm -hold -e "echo hello" how do I keep the xterm interactive? relevant posts: - https://askubuntu.com/questions/928536/script-to-open-terminal-run-command-and-keep-terminal-open ty

When I tried to start chromium, I had error messages :

$ chromium
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
[10139:10139:0321/173002.675673:ERROR:ozone_platform_x11.cc(234)] Missing X server or $DISPLAY
[10139:10139:0321/173002.675976:ERROR:env.cc(225)] The platform failed to initialize.  Exiting.
$ echo $DISPLAY
localhost:10.0

$ xterm # xterm starts fine

VMware Linux 2024.3 This problem appeared with me after updating Kali Linux windows xterm It became small and I had to enlarge it manually. When I search for networks or attack the evil twin, the windows that appear automatically are very small. They used to appear normally before the update. What is the solution to the problem?

[It has long been known](http://wwwbroy.in.tum.de/~malkis/howToReviewPapers.htm) that in certain editors and shells on a PC, to go one word forward, you hit Alt+f or Ctrl+→, and to go one word backward, you hit Alt+b or Ctrl+←. In zsh in uxterm on Gnome+Xorg on Debian 12 bookworm on a PC, neither of these key combinations works despite bindkey -ein .zshrc. The script uxterm lies in /usr/bin/uxterm, which contains, among others, a line # $XTermId: uxterm,v 1.29 2020/03/07 15:52:31 tom Exp $ and belongs to the package xterm version 379-1. Pressing and releasing Alt+b yields â in uxterm. Pressing and releasing Alt+f yields æ in uxterm. The cursor started moving wordwise on Ctrl+← and Ctrl+→ after putting

bindkey "^[[1;5D" backward-word # for Ctrl + ←
bindkey "^[[1;5C" forward-word # for Ctrl + →

into .zshrc, of course, specifically in uxterm on the computer we use in this question. As these control sequences may change when moving from one system to another, we'd welcome it if these lines were not part of a self-made configuration in /home/username/, which can potentially get moved or copied to other computers, but part of some system-wide script. Is there any Debian package with a zsh script that already sets up the word-forward and word-backward key combinations? Or should it be the job of bindkey -e?

Recently, I noticed something strange. If I run the command sudo journalctl -f -u ModemManager in rxvt-unicode (left) and xterm (right), in rxvt-unicode the yellow does not appear when the message is a warning. Both terminals have TERM=xterm-256color and I noticed this problem only in yellow, as the red appears in both terminals. I tried different escape sequences, but I was not able to detect the problem. xterm Right: urxvt" class="img-fluid rounded" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin: 10px 0;" loading="lazy">

Under different Unix/Linux systems I've observed different double click behavior in X terminal applications (e.g. xterm). Sometimes a double click selects everything left and right until the next non-alphabetic character (e.g. it selects the word under the cursor). Sometimes everything until the next blank/eol is selected (e.g. full paths under the cursor are selected). How can I configure the double click behavior - say - in xterm (because it is available on most systems)? Currently, I find the 2nd mode more convenient for most use cases.

I don't quite understand XTerm's (UXTerm's in this case) behaviour regarding colors. I'm using Solarized Light color theme for Alacritty and UXTerm. They're more or less identical: ~/.alacritty.yml:

# Colors (Solarized Light)
colors:
  # Default colors
  primary:
    background: '0xfdf6e3'
    foreground: '0x586e75'

  # Normal colors
  normal:
    black:   '0x073642'
    red:     '0xdc322f'
    green:   '0x859900'
    yellow:  '0xb58900'
    blue:    '0x268bd2'
    magenta: '0xd33682'
    cyan:    '0x2aa198'
    white:   '0xeee8d5'

  # Bright colors
  bright:
    black:   '0x002b36'
    red:     '0xcb4b16'
    green:   '0x586e75'
    yellow:  '0x657b83'
    blue:    '0x839496'
    magenta: '0x6c71c4'
    cyan:    '0x93a1a1'
    white:   '0xfdf6e3'

~/.Xresources:

#define S_base03        #002b36
#define S_base02        #073642
#define S_base01        #586e75
#define S_base00        #657b83
#define S_base0         #839496
#define S_base1         #93a1a1
#define S_base2         #eee8d5
#define S_base3         #fdf6e3
#define S_yellow        #b58900
#define S_orange        #cb4b16
#define S_red           #dc322f
#define S_magenta       #d33682
#define S_violet        #6c71c4
#define S_blue          #268bd2
#define S_cyan          #2aa198
#define S_green         #859900

!fonts&stuff
UXTerm*faceSize: 11
uxterm*eightBitInput: false
UXTerm*faceName: Fira Mono Regular

!Background & foreground
UXTerm*background: S_base3
UXTerm*foreground: S_base00
UXTerm*fading: 40
UXTerm*fadeColor: S_base3
UXTerm*cursorColor: S_base01
UXTerm*pointerColorBackground: S_base1
UXTerm*pointerColorForeground: S_base01

!UXTerm*borderColor: #343434

!Turning off scrollbar
UXTerm*scrollBar:  off

!Starting up with a geometry
UXTerm*vt100*geometry:   160x50

!Colors
!-------------------------
!black
UXTerm*color0: S_base02
UXTerm*color8: S_base03

!red
UXTerm*color1: S_red
UXTerm*color9: S_orange

!green
UXTerm*color2: S_green
UXTerm*color10: S_base01

!yellow
UXTerm*color3: S_yellow
UXTerm*color11: S_base00

!blue
UXTerm*color4: S_blue
UXTerm*color12: S_base0

!magenta
UXTerm*color5: S_magenta
UXTerm*color13: S_violet

!cyan
UXTerm*color6: S_cyan
UXTerm*color14: S_base1

!white
UXTerm*color7: S_base2
UXTerm*color15: S_base3

Alacritty session:

trueneu@pop-os:~$ env | grep TERM
COLORTERM=truecolor
TERM=xterm-256color

UXTerm session:

trueneu@pop-os:~$ env | grep TERM
COLORTERM=truecolor
XTERM_VERSION=XTerm(353)
XTERM_SHELL=/bin/bash
XTERM_LOCALE=en_US.UTF-8
TERM=xterm-256color

But they show completely different behaviours color-wise: Alacritty: UXTerm: Though all is fine in emacs: Alacritty: UXTerm: Both pass this test I've found:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

awk 'BEGIN{
    s="/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\"; s=s s s s s s s s;
    for (colnum = 0; colnum255) g = 510-g;
        printf "\033[48;2;%d;%d;%dm", r,g,b;
        printf "\033[38;2;%d;%d;%dm", 255-r,255-g,255-b;
        printf "%s\033[0m", substr(s,colnum+1,1);
    }
    printf "\n";
}'

Alacritty: UXTerm: The prompt:

PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '

Same with ls colors. UXTerm's infocmp, if it helps:

Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /lib/terminfo/x/xterm-256color
xterm-256color|xterm with 256 colors,
	am, bce, ccc, km, mc5i, mir, msgr, npc, xenl,
	colors#0x100, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, pairs#0x10000,
	acsc=``aaffggiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~,
	bel=^G, blink=\E[5m, bold=\E[1m, cbt=\E[Z, civis=\E[?25l,
	clear=\E[H\E[2J, cnorm=\E[?12l\E[?25h, cr=\r,
	csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr, cub=\E[%p1%dD, cub1=^H,
	cud=\E[%p1%dB, cud1=\n, cuf=\E[%p1%dC, cuf1=\E[C,
	cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH, cuu=\E[%p1%dA, cuu1=\E[A,
	cvvis=\E[?12;25h, dch=\E[%p1%dP, dch1=\E[P, dim=\E[2m,
	dl=\E[%p1%dM, dl1=\E[M, ech=\E[%p1%dX, ed=\E[J, el=\E[K,
	el1=\E[1K, flash=\E[?5h$\E[?5l, home=\E[H,
	hpa=\E[%i%p1%dG, ht=^I, hts=\EH, ich=\E[%p1%d@,
	il=\E[%p1%dL, il1=\E[L, ind=\n, indn=\E[%p1%dS,
	initc=\E]4;%p1%d;rgb\:%p2%{255}%*%{1000}%/%2.2X/%p3%{255}%*%{1000}%/%2.2X/%p4%{255}%*%{1000}%/%2.2X\E\\,
	invis=\E[8m, is2=\E[!p\E[?3;4l\E[4l\E>, kDC=\E[3;2~,
	kEND=\E[1;2F, kHOM=\E[1;2H, kIC=\E[2;2~, kLFT=\E[1;2D,
	kNXT=\E[6;2~, kPRV=\E[5;2~, kRIT=\E[1;2C, kb2=\EOE, kbs=^?,
	kcbt=\E[Z, kcub1=\EOD, kcud1=\EOB, kcuf1=\EOC, kcuu1=\EOA,
	kdch1=\E[3~, kend=\EOF, kent=\EOM, kf1=\EOP, kf10=\E[21~,
	kf11=\E[23~, kf12=\E[24~, kf13=\E[1;2P, kf14=\E[1;2Q,
	kf15=\E[1;2R, kf16=\E[1;2S, kf17=\E[15;2~, kf18=\E[17;2~,
	kf19=\E[18;2~, kf2=\EOQ, kf20=\E[19;2~, kf21=\E[20;2~,
	kf22=\E[21;2~, kf23=\E[23;2~, kf24=\E[24;2~,
	kf25=\E[1;5P, kf26=\E[1;5Q, kf27=\E[1;5R, kf28=\E[1;5S,
	kf29=\E[15;5~, kf3=\EOR, kf30=\E[17;5~, kf31=\E[18;5~,
	kf32=\E[19;5~, kf33=\E[20;5~, kf34=\E[21;5~,
	kf35=\E[23;5~, kf36=\E[24;5~, kf37=\E[1;6P, kf38=\E[1;6Q,
	kf39=\E[1;6R, kf4=\EOS, kf40=\E[1;6S, kf41=\E[15;6~,
	kf42=\E[17;6~, kf43=\E[18;6~, kf44=\E[19;6~,
	kf45=\E[20;6~, kf46=\E[21;6~, kf47=\E[23;6~,
	kf48=\E[24;6~, kf49=\E[1;3P, kf5=\E[15~, kf50=\E[1;3Q,
	kf51=\E[1;3R, kf52=\E[1;3S, kf53=\E[15;3~, kf54=\E[17;3~,
	kf55=\E[18;3~, kf56=\E[19;3~, kf57=\E[20;3~,
	kf58=\E[21;3~, kf59=\E[23;3~, kf6=\E[17~, kf60=\E[24;3~,
	kf61=\E[1;4P, kf62=\E[1;4Q, kf63=\E[1;4R, kf7=\E[18~,
	kf8=\E[19~, kf9=\E[20~, khome=\EOH, kich1=\E[2~,
	kind=\E[1;2B, kmous=\E[M, knp=\E[6~, kpp=\E[5~,
	kri=\E[1;2A, mc0=\E[i, mc4=\E[4i, mc5=\E[5i, meml=\El,
	memu=\Em, oc=\E]104\007, op=\E[39;49m, rc=\E8, rev=\E[7m,
	ri=\EM, rin=\E[%p1%dT, ritm=\E[23m, rmacs=\E(B,
	rmam=\E[?7l, rmcup=\E[?1049l\E[23;0;0t, rmir=\E[4l,
	rmkx=\E[?1l\E>, rmm=\E[?1034l, rmso=\E[27m, rmul=\E[24m,
	rs1=\Ec\E]104\007, rs2=\E[!p\E[?3;4l\E[4l\E>, sc=\E7,
	setab=\E[%?%p1%{8}%<%t4%p1%d%e%p1%{16}%<%t10%p1%{8}%-%d%e48;5;%p1%d%;m,
	setaf=\E[%?%p1%{8}%<%t3%p1%d%e%p1%{16}%<%t9%p1%{8}%-%d%e38;5;%p1%d%;m,
	sgr=%?%p9%t\E(0%e\E(B%;\E[0%?%p6%t;1%;%?%p5%t;2%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p1%p3%|%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p7%t;8%;m,
	sgr0=\E(B\E[m, sitm=\E[3m, smacs=\E(0, smam=\E[?7h,
	smcup=\E[?1049h\E[22;0;0t, smir=\E[4h, smkx=\E[?1h\E=,
	smm=\E[?1034h, smso=\E[7m, smul=\E[4m, tbc=\E[3g,
	u6=\E[%i%d;%dR, u7=\E[6n, u8=\E[?%[;0123456789]c,
	u9=\E[c, vpa=\E[%i%p1%dd,

Am I missing some configuration here? Is this how XTerm works? I don't really understand how's it capable of passing that test though. EDIT: After Thomas Dickey's answer, I've indeed tried to redefine .Xresources to be without C preprocessor #defines. Here's the result:

!fonts&stuff
UXTerm*faceSize: 11
uxterm*eightBitInput: false
UXTerm*faceName: Fira Mono Regular

!Background & foreground
UXTerm*background: #fdf6e3
UXTerm*foreground: #657b83
UXTerm*fading: 40
UXTerm*fadeColor: #fdf6e3
UXTerm*cursorColor: #586e75
UXTerm*pointerColorBackground: #93a1a1
UXTerm*pointerColorForeground: #586e75

!UXTerm*borderColor: #343434

!Turning off scrollbar
UXTerm*scrollBar:  off

!Starting up with a geometry
UXTerm*vt100*geometry:   160x50

!Colors
!-------------------------
!black
UXTerm*color0: #073642
UXTerm*color8: #002b36

!red
UXTerm*color1: #dc322f
UXTerm*color9: #cb4b16

!green
UXTerm*color2: #859900
UXTerm*color10: #586e75

!yellow
UXTerm*color3: #b58900
UXTerm*color11: #657b83

!blue
UXTerm*color4: #268bd2
UXTerm*color12: #839496

!magenta
UXTerm*color5: #d33682
UXTerm*color13: #6c71c4

!cyan
UXTerm*color6: #2aa198
UXTerm*color14: #93a1a1

!white
UXTerm*color7: #eee8d5
UXTerm*color15: #fdf6e3

Loaded the settings without -merge just to be sure:

xrdb ~/.Xresources

And launched UXTerm: EDIT2: Forgot to mention one (probably relevant) detail: if I get rid of the color scheme whatsoever, UXTerm starts to show colors at least _resembling_ Alacritty's: So the direction is kinda correct. But it's plain unusable to me in this state.

Not sure what the deal is, but I can't see the menu in xterm when I Ctrl+Right Click or Ctrl+Left Click.
My .Xresources file is pretty generic; nothing fancy, so I don't think that's the problem.

Couldn't find any answers to this. XTerm*internalBorder actually is a padding between the black border and terminal contents; XTerm*borderWidth is the black border. Couldn't find a resource for the white one, I've built XTerm from source and could it be from --enable-Xaw3d since the border is 3d-ish if you look closely? **EDIT**: I've rebuilt it with bare ./configure without any flags and the border is gone, I guess I'll try to debug which one does enable it and then make an answer for this.

i have never been able to get my terminal to display unicode symbols. for example, before i had my present os, i mapped ctrl+a to the greek mu in vim, and it works on other computers, but not on my current xterm. here is the relevant section of my .vimrc: set encoding=utf-8 "map control-a to mu imap m* also, i need to output sympy equations in python, and this works on other computers, but not on my current xterm. instead of this: $ python Python 2.7.3 (default, Mar 14 2014, 11:57:14) [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sympy >>> x = sympy.symbols('x') >>> sympy.init_printing() >>> (sympy.sqrt(x**3/(x+1)), 1) ⎛ _______ ⎞ ⎜ ╱ 3 ⎟ ⎜ ╱ x ⎟ ⎜ ╱ ───── , 1⎟ ⎝╲╱ x + 1 ⎠ i get this: >>> (sympy.sqrt(x**3/(x+1)), 1) n ------- n n n 3 n n n x n n n ───── , 1n nnnn x + 1 n infact it seems to just use the n character whenever it can't display a unicode character. i'm running xterm from an ~/.xinitrc file and setting some fonts and colors for the terminal in ~/.Xresources. here is all the relevant information i could think of: $ uname -a Linux mypcname 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.60-1+deb7u3 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ xterm -version XTerm(278) $ cat ~/.xinitrc #!/bin/bash #update the xterm colors, font size, etc [[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources # run the window manager in the background first metacity & # get the window manager process id wm_pid=$! # wait a little while for the window manager to load (extend this if the xterm is not being properly maximised) sleep 2 # run the xterm in fullscreen #xterm +u8 -js -fullscreen & xterm -en en_AU.UTF-8 -js -fullscreen & # do not let the window manager become a zombie wait $wm_pid # this would run xterm first, then the window manager. doesn't maximise properly the first time startx is run #xterm -fullscreen & #exec mutter $ cat ~/.Xresources ! see man xterm under the resources heading for explanations ! run xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources after altering this file ! run xrdb -query -all to see the current settings xterm.vt100.faceName: Terminus xterm.vt100.faceSize: 14 ! do not display bold fonts in bold xterm.vt100.AllowBoldFonts: false ! display bold fonts in a different color to make them stand out xterm.vt100.colorBDMode: true ! use green as the bold color (same as in ~/.bashrc) xterm.vt100.colorBD: #98E34D ! cols x lines ... update with values from $(echo $COLUMNS) and $(echo $LINES) xterm.vt100.geometry: 126x52 ! dark green foreground (same as in ~/.bashrc) *foreground: #4E9A06 ! black background *background: #000000 ! scroll quickly xterm*fastScroll: true ! enable utf-8 encoding xterm*locale: true xterm*utf8: 1 ! flash the current line instead of making the bell sound *visualBell: true *visualBellLine: true ! black *color0: #2E3436 ! darkred *color1: #CC0000 ! dark green *color2: #4E9A06 ! brown *color3: #C4A000 ! darkblue *color4: #3465A4 ! darkmagenta *color5: #75507B ! darkcyan *color6: #06989A ! lightgrey *color7: #D3D7CF ! darkgrey *color8: #555753 ! red *color9: #EF2929 ! green *colorA: #8AE234 ! yellow *colorB: #FCE94F ! blue *colorC: #729FCF ! magenta *colorD: #AD7FA8 ! cyan *colorE: #34E2E2 ! white *colorF: #EEEEEC $ tail -10 .bashrc PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/sbin export LC_ALL=en_AU.UTF-8 export LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 export LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8 # final logon actions: # go straight to x on login. only do this for tty1 so that we can still use the other tty consoles without starting x. also only do this when there is not already a display, otherwise the xterm will try and do this after x starts aswell [[ -z $DISPLAY ]] && [[ $(tty) = /dev/tty1 ]] && startx $ locale LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_ALL=en_AU.UTF-8 $ printenv XTERM_LOCALE en_AU.UTF-8 $ xrdb -query -all *background: #000000 *color0: #2E3436 *color1: #CC0000 *color2: #4E9A06 *color3: #C4A000 *color4: #3465A4 *color5: #75507B *color6: #06989A *color7: #D3D7CF *color8: #555753 *color9: #EF2929 *colorA: #8AE234 *colorB: #FCE94F *colorC: #729FCF *colorD: #AD7FA8 *colorE: #34E2E2 *colorF: #EEEEEC *foreground: #4E9A06 *visualBell: true *visualBellLine: true xterm*fastScroll: true xterm*locale: true xterm*utf8: 1 xterm.vt100.AllowBoldFonts: false xterm.vt100.colorBD: #98E34D xterm.vt100.colorBDMode: true xterm.vt100.faceName: Terminus xterm.vt100.faceSize: 14 xterm.vt100.geometry: 126x52 **how can i get utf-8 working to display greek symbols in vim and equations in sympy?** *** extra information requested $ echo $TERM xterm $ appres XTerm *form.Thickness: 0 *tekMenu*tekreset*Label: RESET *tekMenu*tektext2*Label: #2 Size Characters *tekMenu*tekhide*Label: Hide Tek Window *tekMenu*tekcopy*Label: COPY *tekMenu*tektext3*Label: #3 Size Characters *tekMenu*vtshow*Label: Show VT Window *tekMenu*tektextsmall*Label: Small Characters *tekMenu*vtmode*Label: Switch to VT Mode *tekMenu*tektextlarge*Label: Large Characters *tekMenu*tekpage*Label: PAGE *tekMenu.Label: Tek Options *mainMenu*redraw*Label: Redraw Window *mainMenu*sunKeyboard*Label: VT220 Keyboard *mainMenu*terminate*Label: Send TERM Signal *mainMenu*backarrow key*Label: Backarrow Key (BS/DEL) *mainMenu*logging*Label: Log to File *mainMenu*hpFunctionKeys*Label: HP Function-Keys *mainMenu*kill*Label: Send KILL Signal *mainMenu*num-lock*Label: Alt/NumLock Modifiers *mainMenu*print-immediate*Label: Print-All Immediately *mainMenu*scoFunctionKeys*Label: SCO Function-Keys *mainMenu*quit*Label: Quit *mainMenu*alt-esc*Label: Alt Sends Escape *mainMenu*print-on-error*Label: Print-All on Error *mainMenu*tcapFunctionKeys*Label: Termcap Function-Keys *mainMenu*meta-esc*Label: Meta Sends Escape *mainMenu*toolbar*Label: Toolbar *mainMenu*print*Label: Print Window *mainMenu*suspend*Label: Send STOP Signal *mainMenu*delete-is-del*Label: Delete is DEL *mainMenu*print-redir*Label: Redirect to Printer *mainMenu*fullscreen*Label: Full Screen *mainMenu*continue*Label: Send CONT Signal *mainMenu*oldFunctionKeys*Label: Old Function-Keys *mainMenu*securekbd*Label: Secure Keyboard *mainMenu*interrupt*Label: Send INT Signal *mainMenu*8-bit control*Label: 8-Bit Controls *mainMenu*allowsends*Label: Allow SendEvents *mainMenu*sunFunctionKeys*Label: Sun Function-Keys *mainMenu*hangup*Label: Send HUP Signal *mainMenu.Label: Main Options *VT100.utf8Fonts.font4: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1 *VT100.utf8Fonts.font2: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-c-50-iso10646-1 *VT100.utf8Fonts.font6: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1 *VT100.utf8Fonts.font5: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1 *VT100.utf8Fonts.font3: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1 *VT100.utf8Fonts.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1 *VT100.font4: 7x13 *VT100.font2: 5x7 *VT100.font6: 10x20 *VT100.font5: 9x15 *VT100.font3: 6x10 *VT100.font1: nil2 *vtMenu*selectToClipboard*Label: Select to Clipboard *vtMenu*reversewrap*Label: Enable Reverse Wraparound *vtMenu*softreset*Label: Do Soft Reset *vtMenu*cursesemul*Label: Enable Curses Emulation *vtMenu*autolinefeed*Label: Enable Auto Linefeed *vtMenu*hardreset*Label: Do Full Reset *vtMenu*visualbell*Label: Enable Visual Bell *vtMenu*appcursor*Label: Enable Application Cursor Keys *vtMenu*clearsavedlines*Label: Reset and Clear Saved Lines *vtMenu*bellIsUrgent*Label: Enable Bell Urgency *vtMenu*appkeypad*Label: Enable Application Keypad *vtMenu*tekshow*Label: Show Tek Window *vtMenu*poponbell*Label: Enable Pop on Bell *vtMenu*scrollbar*Label: Enable Scrollbar *vtMenu*scrollkey*Label: Scroll to Bottom on Key Press *vtMenu*tekmode*Label: Switch to Tek Mode *vtMenu*scrollttyoutput*Label: Scroll to Bottom on Tty Output *vtMenu*jumpscroll*Label: Enable Jump Scroll *vtMenu*cursorblink*Label: Enable Blinking Cursor *vtMenu*vthide*Label: Hide VT Window *vtMenu*allow132*Label: Allow 80/132 Column Switching *vtMenu*reversevideo*Label: Enable Reverse Video *vtMenu*titeInhibit*Label: Enable Alternate Screen Switching *vtMenu*altscreen*Label: Show Alternate Screen *vtMenu*keepSelection*Label: Keep Selection *vtMenu*autowrap*Label: Enable Auto Wraparound *vtMenu*activeicon*Label: Enable Active Icon *vtMenu.Label: VT Options *SimpleMenu*menuLabel.font: -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* *SimpleMenu*menuLabel.vertSpace: 100 *SimpleMenu*Sme.height: 16 *SimpleMenu*BackingStore: NotUseful *SimpleMenu*HorizontalMargins: 16 *SimpleMenu*Cursor: left_ptr *SimpleMenu*borderWidth: 2 *menubar.borderWidth: 0 *tek4014*fontLarge: 9x15 *tek4014*font2: 8x13 *tek4014*font3: 6x13 *tek4014*fontSmall: 6x10 *MenuButton*borderWidth: 0 *fontMenu*render-font*Label: TrueType Fonts *fontMenu*fontdefault*Label: Default *fontMenu*font6*Label: Huge *fontMenu*allow-window-ops*Label: Allow Window Ops *fontMenu*utf8-mode*Label: UTF-8 Encoding *fontMenu*font1*Label: Unreadable *fontMenu*fontescape*Label: Escape Sequence *fontMenu*utf8-fonts*Label: UTF-8 Fonts *fontMenu*fontsel*Label: Selection *fontMenu*allow-bold-fonts*Label: Bold Fonts *fontMenu*utf8-title*Label: UTF-8 Titles *fontMenu*font-linedrawing*Label: Line-Drawing Characters *fontMenu*font2*Label: Tiny *fontMenu*allow-color-ops*Label: Allow Color Ops *fontMenu*font-doublesize*Label: Doublesized Characters *fontMenu*font3*Label: Small *fontMenu*allow-font-ops*Label: Allow Font Ops *fontMenu*font-loadable*Label: VT220 Soft Fonts *fontMenu*font4*Label: Medium *fontMenu*allow-tcap-ops*Label: Allow Termcap Ops *fontMenu*font-packed*Label: Packed Font *fontMenu*font5*Label: Large *fontMenu*allow-title-ops*Label: Allow Title Ops *fontMenu.Label: VT Fonts *colorD: #AD7FA8 *color5: #75507B *backarrowKeyIsErase: true *colorE: #34E2E2 *color6: #06989A *ptyInitialErase: true *colorF: #EEEEEC *background: #000000 *color7: #D3D7CF *saveLines: 1024 *color8: #555753 *color0: #2E3436 *foreground: #4E9A06 *IconFont: nil2 *color9: #EF2929 *color1: #CC0000 *visualBell: true *colorA: #8AE234 *color2: #4E9A06 *visualBellLine: true *colorB: #FCE94F *color3: #C4A000 *colorC: #729FCF *color4: #3465A4 $ xterm -u8 -fa "DejaVu Sans Mono" # the following is typed in the resulting terminal: $ echo -e "\xE2\x98\xA0" n # however when i copy the result from echo -e "\xE2\x98\xA0" # into my browser, i get this: ☠ (a skull) but it does not show # up as a skull in my xterm $ lsof -p $PPID | grep fonts xterm 5990 me mem REG 254,1 4971 13501810 /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/ter-u18b_iso-8859-1.pcf.gz xterm 5990 me mem REG 254,1 4897 13505403 /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/ter-u18n_iso-8859-1.pcf.gz i also ran $ fc-list but the output was too large to paste into this question. so i have put it here what it shows in my browser: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSansBold.ttf: FreeSans:style=Bold,получерен,negreta,tučné,fed,Fett,Έντονα,Negrita,Lihavoitu,Gras,Félkövér,Grassetto,Vet,Halvfet,Pogrubiony,Negrito,gros,Полужирный,Fet,Kalın,huruf tebal,жирний,Krepko,treknraksts,pusjuodis,đậm,Lodia,धृष्ट what i see in my terminal: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSansBold.ttf: FreeSans:style=Bold,nnnnnnnnn,negreta,tunné,fed,Fett,nnnnnn,Negrita,Lihavoitu,Gras,Félkövér,Grassetto,Vet,Halvfet,Pogrubiony,Negrito,gros,nnnnnnnnnn,Fet,Kalın,huruf tebal,nnnnnn,Krepko,treknraksts,pusjuodis,nậm,Lodia,nnn interestingly, some "special" characters do show up in my terminal, but most are relaced by n. you can see in the previous output that none of получерен can be displayed, but the final character of tučné can be displayed (while the middle č cannot - it is replaced by n) *** as per @apaul's comments it seems that xterm isn't loading the right font. try to set a dummy class so it doesn't load the xterm resources: $ xterm -class Foo -name foo -u8 -fa "DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book" $ # the following commands are all executed in the resulting terminal: $ echo -e "\xE2\x98\xA0" ☠ $ # the above skull actually shows up now. and so does the unicode $ # output from sympy and also vi can display greek symbols now :) all that remains is to figure out why xterm cannot set the font using ~/.Xresoureces, and to get this working. it seems like something must be overriding the font settings? actually i just thought to try above command with the terminus font, and it seems that this is the problem: $ xterm -class Foo -name foo -u8 -fa "Terminus" $ # the following commands are all executed in the resulting terminal: $ echo -e "\xE2\x98\xA0" n maybe terminus is not properly installed? or is being mapped to something else. how could i find that out?

When I connect to a remote macOS Sonoma from a Linux RHEL 8 with ssh -J user@portal user@mac and, once connected, I run vim somefile, I get some extraneous characters at the top-left of the "page" and also at the shell prompt after exiting Vim: ESC[>4;m **note:** Thanks to @LorinczyZsigmond tip of using script I managed to capture those bytes It's not the first time I'm experiencing this problem, with differents local/remote OS combinations (Solaris/FreeBSD/AIX/Linux/macOS), but previously I only had to install the terminfo packages on the remote NIXes to fix it. On macOS Sonoma though, the terminfo for the xterm-256color used by RHEL 8 is already in /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-256color, and changing TERM to xterm doesn't help. Any thoughts on what to do to fix the problem?

Is there a style to [xterm + bash scripts, commands] inside a custom frame? i will wish this style, see example: ╭─────────────────────────┤text title1├────────────────────────╮ │ │ │text, command, script, if else, echo, cat, sed, any command │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │text, command, script, if else, echo, ca t, sed, any command │ │text, command, script, if else, echo, cat , sed, any command │ │text, command, script, if else, echo, cat, sed, any command │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ ├─────────────────────────┤text title2├────────────────────────┤ │text, command, script, if else, echo, cat, sed, any command │ ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ font: Monospace

![semibold, regular ][1] Yellow XTerm from xterm -fa 'Cascadia SemiBold' Pink XTerm from xterm -fa Cascadia As you can see, when I use Cascadia SemiBold the text is slightly heavier but the headers are rendered with the same weight, while in the other XTerm, using plain Cascadia, the headers are rendered with, I think so because it's heavier than Semibold, Cascadia Bold. If it is possible to instruct XTerm to use two specific weights for the regular font and the bold faces, I was unable to find the solution in its man page. Is it possible to instruct XTerm to use two specific weights for the regular font and the bold faces? --- ## Addendum Pink is "regular" Cascadia, yellow is "Cascadia Code ExtraLight" and here XTerm was able to deduce a proper bold face. It's a little bit puzzling… ![regular, extra light ][2]

i create file sh, i click file sh will start to executive. but Xterm not work to run plymouthd... instead kdesu is worked to run plymouthd..but i want to use xterm.. maybe i missing something parameter.. this is KDESU **(works)** #!/bin/bash kdesu -c "sudo plymouthd; plymouth --show-splash; sleep 10; plymouth quit" this is xterm **(not work)** #!/bin/bash xterm -geometry 130x15 -fg Plum1 -bg Purple4 -fa 'Monospace' -fs 10 -e 'sudo plymouthd; plymouth --show-splash; sleep 10; plymouth quit' I checked in google but nothing find..damn...

I am working on an ncurses application that creates some very blocky graphics using alpha‐numeric characters. I’d like to be able to detect the dimensions (specifically the aspect ratio) of the font glyphs so that I can correct for it by changing how I render my graphics (such that a square always looks like a square). I am able to use the

void getmaxyx(WINDOW *win, int y, int x);

function in ncurses to get the size of the screen/window in character cells, but since many windows can be freely resized, it is not reliable. Is there a similar function (or external mechanism) for retrieving the font dimensions?

I am running Xterm and need to find the directory of the default bitmap font (misc-fixed). I have looked everywhere but still can't find it. Any ideas? Here's my output when I run

-report-fonts

:

Loaded VTFonts(default)
        fNorm: fixed
                all chars:     no
                default char:  0
                direction:     0
                ascent:        11
                descent:       2
                first char:    0
                last char:     255
                maximum-chars: 256
                missing-chars: 33
                present-chars: 223
                min_byte1:     0
                max_byte1:     0
                properties:    22
                min_bounds:
                        lbearing: 0
                        rbearing: 0
                        width:    6
                        ascent:   -1
                        descent:  -10
                max_bounds:
                        lbearing: 2
                        rbearing: 6
                        width:    6
                        ascent:   11
                        descent:  2
                Per-character: 222/255
        fBold: fixed
                all chars:     no
                default char:  0
                direction:     0
                ascent:        11
                descent:       2
                first char:    0
                last char:     255
                maximum-chars: 256
                missing-chars: 33
                present-chars: 223
                min_byte1:     0
                max_byte1:     0
                properties:    22
                min_bounds:
                        lbearing: 0
                        rbearing: 0
                        width:    6
                        ascent:   -1
                        descent:  -10
                max_bounds:
                        lbearing: 2
                        rbearing: 6
                        width:    6
                        ascent:   11
                        descent:  2
                Per-character: 222/255
        fWide: fixed
                all chars:     no
                default char:  0
                direction:     0
                ascent:        11
                descent:       2
                first char:    0
                last char:     255
                maximum-chars: 256
                missing-chars: 33
                present-chars: 223
                min_byte1:     0
                max_byte1:     0
                properties:    22
                min_bounds:
                        lbearing: 0
                        rbearing: 0
                        width:    6
                        ascent:   -1
                               max_bounds:
                        lbearing: 2
                        rbearing: 6
                        width:    6
                        ascent:   11
                        descent:  2
                Per-character: 222/255
        fWBold: fixed
                all chars:     no
                default char:  0
                direction:     0
                ascent:        11
                descent:       2
                first char:    0
                last char:     255
                maximum-chars: 256
                missing-chars: 33
                present-chars: 223
                min_byte1:     0
                max_byte1:     0
                properties:    22
                min_bounds:
                        lbearing: 0
                        rbearing: 0
                        width:    6
                        ascent:   -1
                        descent:  -10
                max_bounds:
                        lbearing: 2
                        rbearing: 6
                        width:    6
                        ascent:   11
                        descent:  2
                Per-character: 222/255
xterm: cannot load font "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1"
Loaded VTFonts(default)
        fNorm: fixed
                all chars:     no
                default char:  0
                direction:     0
                ascent:        11
                descent:       2
                first char:    0
                last char:     255
                maximum-chars: 256
                missing-chars: 33
                present-chars: 223
                min_byte1:     0
                max_byte1:     0
                properties:    22
                min_bounds:
                        lbearing: 0
                        rbearing: 0
                        width:    6
                        ascent:   -1
                        descent:  -10
                max_bounds:
                        lbearing: 2
                        rbearing: 6
                        width:    6
                        ascent:   11
                        descent:  2
                Per-character: 222/255
        fBold: fixed
                all chars:     no
                default char:  0
                direction:     0
                ascent:        11
                descent:       2
                first char:    0
                last char:     255
                maximum-chars: 256
                missing-chars: 33
                present-chars: 223
                min_byte1:     0         
                descent:  -10
                max_byte1:     0
                properties:    22
                min_bounds:
                        lbearing: 0
                        rbearing: 0
                        width:    6
                        ascent:   -1
                        descent:  -10
                max_bounds:
                        lbearing: 2
                        rbearing: 6
                        width:    6
                        ascent:   11
                        descent:  2
                Per-character: 222/255
        fWide: fixed
                all chars:     no
                default char:  0
                direction:     0
                ascent:        11
                descent:       2
                first char:    0
                last char:     255
                maximum-chars: 256
                missing-chars: 33
                present-chars: 223
                min_byte1:     0
                max_byte1:     0
                properties:    22
                min_bounds:
                        lbearing: 0
                        rbearing: 0
                        width:    6
                        ascent:   -1
                        descent:  -10
                max_bounds:
                        lbearing: 2
                        rbearing: 6
                        width:    6
                        ascent:   11
                        descent:  2
                Per-character: 222/255
        fWBold: fixed
                all chars:     no
                default char:  0
                direction:     0
                ascent:        11
                descent:       2
                first char:    0
                last char:     255
                maximum-chars: 256
                missing-chars: 33
                present-chars: 223
                min_byte1:     0
                max_byte1:     0
                properties:    22
                min_bounds:
                        lbearing: 0
                        rbearing: 0
                        width:    6
                        ascent:   -1
                        descent:  -10
                max_bounds:
                        lbearing: 2
                        rbearing: 6
                        width:    6
                        ascent:   11
                        descent:  2
                Per-character: 222/255

...

I recently installed Arch with the i3-wm group package for context. Is it also possible the font is simply embedded inside a binary since I didn't explicitly install any fonts? Would love any insight!!

I read this post today and the answers claimed that certain escape sequences could be dangerous in some terminals, this post also has people saying that it can even be unsafe to simply view log files. Note the word "view" there, ever since I started using GNU/Linux I've always thought of cat as a way to view text files, but the more I read about it, the more I see that cat shouldn't be used for that at all. My questions are: are these answers still true today? Have there been many patches to secure terminals? Should I be afraid of running applications over an ssh connection because they can infect the terminal I'm viewing them on?

I have recently installed Cascadia Code (because I love its "4") and **I can use it in XTerm** $ xrdb -merge XTerm*faceName: Cascadia Code ^D $ **but**, otoh, if I try using the command line $ xterm -fa 'Cascadia Code' $ xterm: No absolute path found for shell: Code (above, the error message is printed after the prompt!). I know the Unix SE Q&A https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/269351/xterm-no-absolute-path-found-for-shell , and I can understand the error message except that XTerm shouldn't look at Code in isolation. What I'm missing? --- As a follow up to a now deleted comment (ty Chris Davies) I tried xterm -fa 'Cascadia\ Code', xterm -fa 'Cascadia\\ Code', xterm -fa 'Cascadia\\\ Code', xterm -fa 'Cascadia\\\\ Code' to finally realize that any number of backslashes, it doesn't matter. --- I'm on Suse Tumbleweed, $ xterm -v $ XTerm(389) (also here the message is printed after the next prompt). Here it is the output of fc-list: $ fc-list 'Cascadia Code' /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-Italic.otf: Cascadia Code:style=Italic /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-SemiBoldItalic.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code SemiBold:style=SemiBold Italic,Italic /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-LightItalic.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code Light:style=Light Italic,Italic /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-SemiBold.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code SemiBold:style=SemiBold,Regular /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-SemiLight.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code SemiLight:style=SemiLight,Regular /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-Light.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code Light:style=Light,Regular /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-ExtraLight.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code ExtraLight:style=ExtraLight,Regular /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-ExtraLightItalic.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code ExtraLight:style=ExtraLight Italic,Italic /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-Bold.otf: Cascadia Code:style=Bold /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-BoldItalic.otf: Cascadia Code:style=Bold Italic /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-Regular.otf: Cascadia Code:style=Regular /usr/share/fonts/texlive-cascadia-code/CascadiaCode-SemiLightItalic.otf: Cascadia Code,Cascadia Code SemiLight:style=SemiLight Italic,Italic $

After I add the following command to my ~/.tcshrc: echo "\033]0;${PROJECT_NAME}\007" The less command in a new gnome-terminal stops working properly. But more command is not affected. This is what I see when trying to run less command: less log ESC]0;MYPROJ^G log (END)

If I launch xterm with its default bitmap fonts and then select the 'Large' font from the 'VT Fonts' menu (via ctrl+right mouse), I get a very usable bitmap font with apparently good Japanese character support. **I'd like to know what this font is** so that I can use it elsewhere. Unfortunately, I've found no information on what default settings XTerm uses (i.e. when none are explicitly specified). Lots of sites show how to use X resources to specify new settings (e.g. particular fonts), but none I've seen say what defaults are used if I do nothing. I've tried eyeballing the font, and it looks similar to and is the same width as 9x15, but it uses more vertical space. It appears not to be 9x15 with different line spacing, though, as specifying this font directly fails to display some Japanese characters that 'Large' can handle just fine. Although I'll be happy to know what this specific font is, I really want to know where to find **what defaults XTerm uses for its resources** more generally. If it makes any difference, I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 64-bit. [I have seen [this question](https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/35748/5602) on the subject already, which is why I'm specifically asking about defaults rather than trying to get live values from a running XTerm.]