Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window
Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:43:08PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: The mouse will make the window bigger, but it doesn't change the font size!! You could try to hold down shift and use the + and - on the numerical keypad to change the font and windowsize. It works for me in enlightenment. Regards Kenneth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:05:48AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/30/2009 11:58 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:51:35PM -0600, Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com was heard to say: Thanks for the insight! I'll remember to use TERM when I have to kill so errant process. It might save me a headache in the future! The difference between TERM and KILL, btw, is that TERM asks the program to shut down, whereas KILL just stops it instantly. So programs killed with TERM can run cleanup actions before they shut down, I 'kill -15' iceweasel whenever I need to log out but want to retain all my windows and tabs. you may already know this, but iceweasel 3 does this for you. ctrl-q and then enter (I think it's the default option, save session for next time). A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:21:21PM -0600, Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com was heard to say: I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and writes over it. That sounds like something left your terminal in a bad state. Does running reset help? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window
Daniel Burrows wrote the following on 01/30/2009 09:46 AM: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:21:21PM -0600, Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com was heard to say: I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and writes over it. That sounds like something left your terminal in a bad state. Does running reset help? Daniel Daniel; No, reset didn't do it, but your comment gave me an idea. I opened a new terminal window and it worked just fine! I had eight terminal windows open in various workspaces and they all malfunctioned the same way. After your suggestion I opened another terminal window, didn't close the others, and it worked! Just on a hunch I tried one of the others, and now they *all* work as they should! Exceeding strange! But I am now a happy camper, or would that be happy hacker? Any way, thanks for the help and suggestions Ron and Daniel! Good Luck!! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:28:03AM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: Daniel Burrows wrote the following on 01/30/2009 09:46 AM: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:21:21PM -0600, Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com was heard to say: I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and writes over it. That sounds like something left your terminal in a bad state. Does running reset help? No, reset didn't do it, but your comment gave me an idea. I opened a new terminal window and it worked just fine! I had eight terminal windows open in various workspaces and they all malfunctioned the same way. After your suggestion I opened another terminal window, didn't close the others, and it worked! Just on a hunch I tried one of the others, and now they *all* work as they should! Exceeding strange! But I am now a happy camper, or would that be happy hacker? It might be useful to compare the terminal settings in the `bad' vs `good' cases, e.g., using stty -a bad, etc.. You might be able to find something to tweak to fix that particular problem. Well behaved programs should return the terminal to its original state, but maybe that didn't happen. Killing programs with the KILL (-9) signal would probably have this effect, vs using the default TERM (-15). -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window
Ken Irving wrote the following on 01/30/2009 01:30 PM: It might be useful to compare the terminal settings in the `bad' vs `good' cases, e.g., using stty -a bad, etc.. You might be able to find something to tweak to fix that particular problem. Well behaved programs should return the terminal to its original state, but maybe that didn't happen. Killing programs with the KILL (-9) signal would probably have this effect, vs using the default TERM (-15). All of the terminal windows are bash sessions started with the same shortcut. As far as I can tell they all started malfunctioning at the same time and all started working again at the same time. Of course not every command that I type takes more than one line so it would be hard to tell exactly when the problem started. I do know that starting/opening another window fixed the problem in all of the open windows/sessions. More likely opening another window fetched a clean version of some module or control file that they all use. Thanks for the insight! I'll remember to use TERM when I have to kill so errant process. It might save me a headache in the future! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:43:08PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: The mouse will make the window bigger, but it doesn't change the font size!! xterm has a neat feature. Ctrl-right lick of the mouse in an xterm will pop up a menu where you can choose the font size, etc. In case you need to make them permanent, you have to put the settings in ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources. Mine has the following : XTerm*foreground: black XTerm*background: grey XTerm*VT100.font: 10x20 XTerm*LoginShell: true XTerm*ScrollBar: true XTerm*colorMode: on rxvt.font: 9x15 rxvt.loginShell: true rxvt.background: black rxvt.foreground: white rxvt.cursorColor: green Aterm.font: 9x15 Aterm*scrollBar: false Aterm*loginShell: true ATerm*background: grey Aterm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15 Aterm*geometry: 80x40 Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. GPG KeyID : F6A35935 Fingerprint: D172 22C4 7CDC D9CD 62B5 55C1 2A69 D5D8 F6A3 5935 BOFH excuse #256: You need to install an RTFM interface. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:51:35PM -0600, Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com was heard to say: Thanks for the insight! I'll remember to use TERM when I have to kill so errant process. It might save me a headache in the future! The difference between TERM and KILL, btw, is that TERM asks the program to shut down, whereas KILL just stops it instantly. So programs killed with TERM can run cleanup actions before they shut down, but programs killed with KILL don't get a chance. (this also means that programs can ignore TERM, for instance because they've crashed really badly -- KILL is really meant for situations where that has happened) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window
On 01/30/2009 11:58 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:51:35PM -0600, Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com was heard to say: Thanks for the insight! I'll remember to use TERM when I have to kill so errant process. It might save me a headache in the future! The difference between TERM and KILL, btw, is that TERM asks the program to shut down, whereas KILL just stops it instantly. So programs killed with TERM can run cleanup actions before they shut down, I 'kill -15' iceweasel whenever I need to log out but want to retain all my windows and tabs. but programs killed with KILL don't get a chance. (this also means that programs can ignore TERM, for instance because they've crashed really badly -- KILL is really meant for situations where that has happened) -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I am not surprised, for we live long and are celebrated poopers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window
On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and writes over it. As you might suspect, this does not result in a valid command line! Anybody have any ideas?? Does bash exhibit this same problem in xterm? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I am not surprised, for we live long and are celebrated poopers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and writes over it. As you might suspect, this does not result in a valid command line! Anybody have any ideas?? Does bash exhibit this same problem in xterm? No, if I launch an xterm it behaves normally. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window
On 01/29/2009 09:52 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and writes over it. As you might suspect, this does not result in a valid command line! Anybody have any ideas?? Does bash exhibit this same problem in xterm? No, if I launch an xterm it behaves normally. Then use xterm??? :P -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I am not surprised, for we live long and are celebrated poopers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:56 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:52 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and writes over it. As you might suspect, this does not result in a valid command line! Anybody have any ideas?? Does bash exhibit this same problem in xterm? No, if I launch an xterm it behaves normally. Then use xterm??? :P I'd try that. Where is the doc for setting colors, font, window size and all that stuff? Right now I get a little tiny window about the size of a postage stamp in bw! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window
On 01/29/2009 10:00 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:56 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:52 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and writes over it. As you might suspect, this does not result in a valid command line! Anybody have any ideas?? Does bash exhibit this same problem in xterm? No, if I launch an xterm it behaves normally. Then use xterm??? :P I'd try that. Where is the doc for setting colors, font, window size and all that stuff? You mean initial window size (--geometry), and potential colors (it starts black and white, but color apps -- like 'make menuconfig' are in color like they are supposed to be)? Here's the Command that I have in an icon on my Tray: urxvt -sl 1 -bg white -fg black -font -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-r The font string I generated using xfontsel (from package x11-utils, in menu location Foot-Debian-Applications-System-Administration). The rest I deduced from reading the man page. This gives me a window with a scroll buffer of 10,000 lines, black text on a white background using the fixed font with medium thickness in 14 point size. Right now I get a little tiny window about the size of a postage stamp in bw! Resize the window with the mouse? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I am not surprised, for we live long and are celebrated poopers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 10:33 PM: On 01/29/2009 10:00 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:56 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:52 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and writes over it. As you might suspect, this does not result in a valid command line! Anybody have any ideas?? Does bash exhibit this same problem in xterm? No, if I launch an xterm it behaves normally. Then use xterm??? :P I'd try that. Where is the doc for setting colors, font, window size and all that stuff? You mean initial window size (--geometry), and potential colors (it starts black and white, but color apps -- like 'make menuconfig' are in color like they are supposed to be)? Here's the Command that I have in an icon on my Tray: urxvt -sl 1 -bg white -fg black -font -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-r The font string I generated using xfontsel (from package x11-utils, in menu location Foot-Debian-Applications-System-Administration). The rest I deduced from reading the man page. This gives me a window with a scroll buffer of 10,000 lines, black text on a white background using the fixed font with medium thickness in 14 point size. Right now I get a little tiny window about the size of a postage stamp in bw! Resize the window with the mouse? The mouse will make the window bigger, but it doesn't change the font size!! Thanks for that info. I think I can probably figure out a workable config from that. Thanks again!! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:21:21PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and writes over it. As you might suspect, this does not result in a valid command line! Anybody have any ideas?? The (remote?) system does not know the terminal type ($TERM) you use? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
