Here’s a script snippet using the colorized output of ls as an example (on Mac OS X 10.6). # no colored ls output if stdout is a pipe (and not a tty) ls -G / ls -G / | cat script -q /dev/null ls -G / | tr -d ‘\r’ | cat # write output … Read more
I didn’t need to reinstall XQuartz, but, based on Matt Widjaja’s answer, I came up with a refinement. sudo vi /etc/ssh/ssh_config (This is ssh client config, not sshd_config) Under the Host * entry add (or add where appropriate per-host) XAuthLocation /usr/X11/bin/xauth (The location of xauth changed in Sierra) ServerAliveInterval 60 (Pings the server every 60 … Read more
When you don’t use tmux or screen, you only need to configure your terminal emulators to advertise themselves as “capable of displaying 256 colors” by setting their TERM to xterm-256color or any comparable value that works with your terminals and platforms. How you do it will depend on the terminal emulator and is outside of … Read more
This will reload the .Xresources: xrdb ~/.Xresources Source: Arch wiki
xwininfo and xprop permits to retrieve what you want, but it is a little tricky. xwininfo permits to retrieve all known windows, and xprop to query X about a single window ID for your _NET_WM_PID parameter. So far, a hacky way to do it would be: #!/bin/sh findpid=$1 known_windows=$(xwininfo -root -children|sed -e ‘s/^ *//’|grep -E … Read more
Recent “unreleased” versions of tmux do automatically recognize those xterm-style key sequences once you have your terminal sending them (no need to change your terminfo entry). The next release version (1.8?) should also have this support. With an appropriate build of tmux1, all you have to do is bind the keys in your tmux configuration: … Read more
You can set the screen / xterm title using the following lines: #!/bin/bash mytitle=”Some title” echo -e ‘\033k’$mytitle’\033\\’ [UPDATE] – by request I’m also including the solution proposed by @Espo below: Depending on your xterm version or your linux distribution the line above may or may not work and you can try the xterm-defaults: #!/bin/bash … Read more
You can try something like: TERM=vt100 top -b -n 1 This will set the TERM variable to execute with the “top” command. But your underlying problem is that your termcap database is incomplete or broken. I don’t have a Debian machine to look at, but on an Ubuntu box, the “dumb” termcap info is in … Read more
This means that the terminal is using the alternate screen buffer. There is a main screen, which scrolls into the scrollback log, and an alternate screen that does not. “Full screen” or “screen-oriented” programs like top, less, emacs, vim and screen switch the terminal to the alternate screen by default. Each screen has its own … Read more
Thanks to this post, what I did was add one line to ~/.screenrc: # ~/.screenrc defshell -bash # dash makes it a login shell Then things in your ~/.bashrc, /etc/bashrc, etc. should get run.