Re: [newbie] terminal launches
Now how did you know that?? grin or better phrased Where did you learn that? I had assumed that a terminal just worked like that. didn't realize that the after the command would free the terminal.I had been opening up several terminals when using black box to start the programs that were not set into the menu (was just to lazy to put them in the blackbox menu:) . A cool tip that I wasn't even looking for.. just thought I would say thanks! :) -- Dave Crouse www.iowawebmasters.com Running Mandrake 8.1 IBM Intellistation E Pro 450 mghz 750 mb ram -- On Wednesday 20 February 2002 11:44 am, you wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Paul Kraus wrote: %_If I launch a program for a terminal session is there some way to load it so that it doesn't keep the terminal frozen until it is closed? Thanks. command The runs the command in the background. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Terminal syntax??? to a floppy directly from wordstar?
Try using the entire path to the file i.e. /home/user/filename? -Original Message- From: Thomas Wildeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Terminal syntax??? to a floppy directly from wordstar? Hello, I couldn't find a terminal icon in starword. But i can find one on the tool bar, so I used it to type in: /mnt/floppy/Note to Luke1.doc Yet I got an error saying the directory or file doesn't exist. What did I do incorrectly? i can see clearly using the file browser that it is existing. Btw is there a direct way of accessing this terminal in starword? Thanks for any help, Thmswldmn From: s [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Now HOW can I access the save area? to a floppy directly from wordstar? Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:58:15 -0600 On Wednesday 16 January 2002 01:26 pm, you wrote: Hello, Thanks for the help and the replies. This just shows how ignorant I am. What do I have to do to access or write in the words: /mnt/floppy/name of file ? I apologize for asking such a basic thing ahead of time. Respectfully, thmswldmn don't worry about it, as long as it looks like you're interested in learning, someone will always answer. They mean type it in at a terminal, kinda similar in appearance to the dos prompt in windows. Usually by default there is a little icon that looks a little like a little monitor screen in your panel, that's the link to a terminal/console. In there you will find a whole new world. :-) -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Terminal syntax??? to a floppy directly from wordstar?
I think you may have misunderstood the previous help. Let me try. If you are in Star Writer and would like to save a file to a floppy disk: 1. Put the floppy in the drive. 2. Open a terminal window as you have done before when trying the previous help. 3. Type 'mount /mnt/floppy' or if that doesn't work, try 'mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy'. 4. You should see the floppy disk light come on momentarily. 5. If no error messages are recieved, then the mount was successful. 6. In Star Writer, go to the Save As function. 7. Choose '/mnt/floppy/' as the directory. This is just like selecting A:\ in Windoze. 8. Type in a file name and Save. To open the file, perform steps 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 before starting or right after starting StarWriter. Then just go to OPEN in Star Writerand do step 7 and then find the file. I don't believe there is a direct way of getting a terminal from Star Writer. Just use the one in your K or GNOME bar. Hope that helps. Chad -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Thomas Wildeman Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 3:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Terminal syntax??? to a floppy directly from wordstar? Hello, I couldn't find a terminal icon in starword. But i can find one on the tool bar, so I used it to type in: /mnt/floppy/Note to Luke1.doc Yet I got an error saying the directory or file doesn't exist. What did I do incorrectly? i can see clearly using the file browser that it is existing. Btw is there a direct way of accessing this terminal in starword? Thanks for any help, Thmswldmn From: s [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Now HOW can I access the save area? to a floppy directly from wordstar? Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:58:15 -0600 On Wednesday 16 January 2002 01:26 pm, you wrote: Hello, Thanks for the help and the replies. This just shows how ignorant I am. What do I have to do to access or write in the words: /mnt/floppy/name of file ? I apologize for asking such a basic thing ahead of time. Respectfully, thmswldmn don't worry about it, as long as it looks like you're interested in learning, someone will always answer. They mean type it in at a terminal, kinda similar in appearance to the dos prompt in windows. Usually by default there is a little icon that looks a little like a little monitor screen in your panel, that's the link to a terminal/console. In there you will find a whole new world. :-) -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Terminal syntax??? to a floppy directly from wordsta r?
Sorry for coming in halfway through a thread, but it looks like everyone is discussing a different subject :) To save to a floppy from within an application then just select 'Save' and save it as /mnt/floppy/filename The floppy must be already inserted and mounted. You mount it either by right clicking on the floppy icon on your desktop and selecting mount, or by typing mount /mnt/floppy in a terminal window. Do not forget to 'unmount' it before removing the floppy. Right click on the floppy icon or else 'umount /mnt/floppy' in a terminal window. The utility kwikdisk is handy for quick mounting/unmounting of removable media.You will find it in KmenuConfigurationKardwareKwikdisk set it to dock in your taskbar, and then when you leave KDE make sure the save settings box is checked. Kwikdisk will then automatically load as an icon in your task bar for ever more. By the way: In Linux it is a good idea to avoid spaces in file names. Spaces are allowed, but when you refer to the file in a terminal command you have to 'quote' the space by putting the whole file name in Quote marks. For example if we want to list the contents of a text file in a terminal window we can use the 'more' command, as in more /mnt/floppy/Note to Luke.txt or alternatively you could precede each space with a '\' as in more /mnt/floppy/Note\ to\Luke.txt If you do not do this the 'more' command will think it has to list the file called '/mnt/floppy/Note' and has command options 'to' and 'Luke.txt' specified. As you can see its a lot less trouble to just not use spaces. When saving or loading from your application you do not have to worry about spaces, so for example StarWrite is quite happy to load or save /mnt/floppy/Note to Luke.txt Hope I have not confused you even more than you were already. It is a steep learning curve at first, but once you get it you will find it real easy. derek On Wednesday 16 January 2002 21:55, Matt Bullock wrote: Try using the entire path to the file i.e. /home/user/filename? -Original Message- From: Thomas Wildeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Terminal syntax??? to a floppy directly from wordstar? Hello, I couldn't find a terminal icon in starword. But i can find one on the tool bar, so I used it to type in: /mnt/floppy/Note to Luke1.doc Yet I got an error saying the directory or file doesn't exist. What did I do incorrectly? i can see clearly using the file browser that it is existing. Btw is there a direct way of accessing this terminal in starword? Thanks for any help, Thmswldmn From: s [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Now HOW can I access the save area? to a floppy directly from wordstar? Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:58:15 -0600 On Wednesday 16 January 2002 01:26 pm, you wrote: Hello, Thanks for the help and the replies. This just shows how ignorant I am. What do I have to do to access or write in the words: /mnt/floppy/name of file ? I apologize for asking such a basic thing ahead of time. Respectfully, thmswldmn don't worry about it, as long as it looks like you're interested in learning, someone will always answer. They mean type it in at a terminal, kinda similar in appearance to the dos prompt in windows. Usually by default there is a little icon that looks a little like a little monitor screen in your panel, that's the link to a terminal/console. In there you will find a whole new world. :-) -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] terminal games?
Nethack. Slash. LARN. Rogue. Moria. Basically, all of the roguelikes are curses based. (there are hundreds more - these are the fellows I play regularly). -Original Message- From: Matt Greer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 6:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] terminal games? Does anyone know of any action games that are done in the console (probably using ncurses)? I mean games that use text characters to produce all the graphics, you could run the game without X installed at all. I keep downloading games that claim to be console games, compiling them, then running them and they pop up in kde as a graphical game. Getting frustrating :) Matt File: message.footer ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] terminal games?
On Friday 05 October 2001 03:15 pm, you wrote: Not sure if it uses ncurses, but Star Trek is really cool. And there's Snake (well, that's what it's called on cell phones :) ), Thanks, nibble (the snake game) was what I needed. It dawned on me to stop searching for linux terminal games and search for ncurses games. That did the trick. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Terminal not fully functional
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Peter Ruskin wrote: I don't know what I've done, but now I get this message using any xterm as a user - root's OK. I can only use the spacebar to page forward in a man page. [20:14 peter@penguin:~]$ man bash WARNING: terminal is not fully functional - (press RETURN) BASH(1) BASH(1) On consoles 1..6, as root or user, I get... [20:14 peter@penguin:~]$ man bash standard input:1386:warning: can't break line BASH(1) BASH(1) Ideas, anyone? Yes, this rings a bell. Same message - terminal not fully functional. Could not figure out what caused the xterm to get in that state but it did appear to be connected to one user so the immediate cause of the problem seemed to be in a startup script or configuration file. Found a hidden file in my home directory which I knew nothing about, called something like .ttyrc. Too long ago to remember exactly what it was called or what it contained. Anyway, deleted that and the problem vanished for subsequent xterms. Try looking for something like that. Try ls -a for both root and user and look for hidden files which do not appear in both. One of these will be the culprit. Then you have to figure out what created it in the first place. Good luck -- Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation
RE: [newbie] Terminal Linux
SEE: http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/doc/html/atnetboot.html LinuxJournal had a nice article about this last year. Search their archives. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of dison Andrs Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:51 AM To: Linux Novatos Subject: [newbie] Terminal Linux Hello all I received a message with this link: www.ltsp.org Anybody knows if Can I use a 286 PC like a terminal? How Can I do it? See ya -- dison Andrs Rivera Norea Ingeniero de Sistemas Departamento de Informtica Universidad de San Buenaventura Medelln - Colombia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos
RE: [newbie] Terminal Linux
Well, the easiest way of allowing a 286pc to be used like a terminal is to use a terminal program. The last time I did anything like this (10 years ago I think) I used Procomm plus. regards Daryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of dison Andrs Sent: 27 February 2001 16:51 To: Linux Novatos Subject: [newbie] Terminal Linux Hello all I received a message with this link: www.ltsp.org Anybody knows if Can I use a 286 PC like a terminal? How Can I do it? See ya -- dison Andrs Rivera Norea Ingeniero de Sistemas Departamento de Informtica Universidad de San Buenaventura Medelln - Colombia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos
RE: [newbie] Terminal Linux
I can't tell if this is off topic. If you want to run Linux on a 286, forget it, Linux is a full 32-bit OS. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daryl Johnson Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 1:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Terminal Linux Well, the easiest way of allowing a 286pc to be used like a terminal is to use a terminal program. The last time I did anything like this (10 years ago I think) I used Procomm plus. regards Daryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of dison Andrs Sent: 27 February 2001 16:51 To: Linux Novatos Subject: [newbie] Terminal Linux Hello all I received a message with this link: www.ltsp.org Anybody knows if Can I use a 286 PC like a terminal? How Can I do it? See ya -- dison Andrs Rivera Norea Ingeniero de Sistemas Departamento de Informtica Universidad de San Buenaventura Medelln - Colombia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos
Re: [newbie] Terminal window dupes
Hey John, Any idea what could cause a terminal window to auto- duplicate on each desktop? That's a similar problem to one I have I'll click on an application icon and get multiple occurrances opened up. Tom reminded me of something I remember reading long ago that the "stickY" state of a window, if "remembered" or saved, will put it on all your desktops. So, next you have it open, check the window settings to see if sticky is set. If so, turn it off. Worked for me. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Terminal
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Jeremy wrote: You said you have Mandrake 6.1 but the NEWEST version of lynx. That could make it tough for people here to know your exact setup. If you compiled it yourself it may be easier to know which library was used. If noone here can help you, try the lynx mailing list or their website. i already 'downgrade' to mandrake 6.1 lynx and vim [des@nadia des]$ rpm -qa |grep lynx lynx-2.8.3dev.8-1mdk [des@nadia des]$ rpm -qa |grep vim vim-common-5.4-3mdk vim-enhanced-5.4-3mdk vim-minimal-5.4-3mdk but the color still wont up. others apps (MC, BitchX, ls -f --color) looks fine Sorry I know this isn't much help. i thank you for the answer, i really appreciate it. have a nice weekend :) ps: i made a screenshot of my desktop http://www.gauli.com/~des/desk.jpg i reply your email with vim as editor, theres bold lines where supposed to be colored, and aterm at lower right shows the first page of rpmfind.net while Kvt looks in colors -- Rib Your mind understands what you have been taught; your heart, what is true.
Re: [newbie] Terminal
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Jeremy wrote: Do you have colors in lynx in one of your text mode virtual consoles? Jeremy, my lynx does have colors in console/shell, and so does vim. do you have lynx/vim colors while you in X session, i mean running lynx from Konsole/Eterm/Aterm/Xterm, do you see colors? i guess its only happen with mandrake, i used to have RedHad 5.x before and never seen this and also on my friends RH 6.x im sure theres something to do with the bash or vt100 settings somewhere but i dont know how. ~jeremy -- Rib First study the enemy. Seek weakness. -- Romulan Commander, "Balance of Terror", stardate 1709.2
Re: [newbie] terminal emulator
hi... thank god I managed to solve the problem... now the terminal emulator works... for those who are using SiS vga chip and bound to have the same problem with me, why not give a try to use XFCom_SiS server from SuSe linux... I dled it and there!.. I can use all of my terminals now... thanks to all --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi... I have this problem.. I install mandrake 6.1 and got the X window working, but all terminal emulators, console, and likes didn't work well. When i invokes it, all it displays is black box. Bad display also occur in some program like xfontcel and xvidtune. After a few tries, i found that its works well if I use VGA16 server but not with SVGA server. Other things in Gnome and KDE works well with SVGA. Any idea how to solve this problem... I have to use SVGA because other program dont have any problem. This is the only drawback in my system now. Please help.. __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] terminal emulator wont work
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi... i use mandrake 6.1 my terminal emulator didn't work properly.. i cannot see the cursor although it is there. all i can see is black box... but when i type a command (without seeing it) the command work.. e.g xvidtune.. any suggestion? Quit fiddleing with colors? Which one are you running, we can't tell you how to put it back if we don't know which one is messed up. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] terminal related lockups
I am not sure if our problems are one and the same but I had this problem on my laptop. Occasionally, the system will lock the keyboard and the mouse and I had to switch it off and on to continue...but a quick look at the clock showed that the system is still running. I was desperate and wrote a script that will reboot the machine if it cannot find a certain file in the /tmp directory. every now and then it checks the directory and removes it if it is present and checks back after an interval...which means every now and then i have to touch the file in the directory...i know it seems stupid but at least the machine can shutdown cleanly without me having to sit through an fsck whenever this happens The wierd thing is that since i implemented this script the problem has been so infrequent that is has almost (touch wood) disappeared! I cannot explain this X-filish phenomenon but this is just my 2 cents... On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 05:57:39AM +, pete moss wrote: i know, i have mentioned this before, but i am still having problems. anytime i open a terminal (xterm, gnome-terminal, etc.) from within X, the computer completely locks up and i have to hit reset. if i start the terminal from a virtual terminal (alt+F2) then it runs fine. i am running mandrake 6.1. i didnt have this problem with 6.0. i have reinstalled several packages that seem to be affected, but no luck. it seems like there is a software problem outside of the affected programs that might be causing this. anyone know how i can track down this problem? it is hindering some of my work in linux. please pass the slightest bit of info! thanks! :P ps - is there a quick way to reinstall all of the currently installed packages from the cdrom? i would like to avoid redoing a fresh install. == E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ No.: 38756924 ==
Re: [newbie] terminal emulation problems
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 10:03:21PM +0200, Jose Ramon Delgado wrote: Hi , I am trying to connect my labtop to the serial port of my PC with Linux , and actually a got it , but the problem is that the speed of the comunication is really slow , ( for example 5 minutes just to load the mandrake init page where you enter the login and password) , I am using procommplus and Reflection X and even if I put the speed line to 115200 bps is the same problem , I am using the getty command ' in the inittab file with this speed , , I am NOT using a Null modem cable and it still works but really really slowly. Trying to use X over a connection that slow will be exactly as painful as you describe. You can try finding some information about LBX, an X protocol compressor which will make the connection feel a bit faster, but I don't know if the Reflection X suite is compatible with it. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] terminal related lockups
Jackal wrote: I am not sure if our problems are one and the same but I had this problem on my laptop. Occasionally, the system will lock the keyboard and the mouse and I had to switch it off and on to continue...but a quick look at the clock showed that the system is still running. i think the clock runs all the time anyway. the clock is in your hardware and it has a battery. thtas why the time is correct if your computer has been turned off for days. I was desperate and wrote a script that will reboot the machine if it cannot find a certain file in the /tmp directory. every now and then it checks the directory and removes it if it is present and checks back after an interval...which means every now and then i have to touch the file in the directory...i know it seems stupid but at least the machine can shutdown cleanly without me having to sit through an fsck whenever this happens The wierd thing is that since i implemented this script the problem has been so infrequent that is has almost (touch wood) disappeared! sounds odd, but i am desperate too. any chance you could lend me a copy of that script? I cannot explain this X-filish phenomenon but this is just my 2 cents... On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 05:57:39AM +, pete moss wrote: i know, i have mentioned this before, but i am still having problems. anytime i open a terminal (xterm, gnome-terminal, etc.) from within X, the computer completely locks up and i have to hit reset. if i start the terminal from a virtual terminal (alt+F2) then it runs fine. i am running mandrake 6.1. i didnt have this problem with 6.0. i have reinstalled several packages that seem to be affected, but no luck. it seems like there is a software problem outside of the affected programs that might be causing this. anyone know how i can track down this problem? it is hindering some of my work in linux. please pass the slightest bit of info! thanks! :P ps - is there a quick way to reinstall all of the currently installed packages from the cdrom? i would like to avoid redoing a fresh install. == E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ No.: 38756924 ==
Re: [newbie] terminal and backspace
Someone disagree with this, because this is specifically a Unix command, but give it a go anyway, it might work under Linux; stty erase backspace key - Original Message - From: lalala lalala [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 03, 1999 11:27 PM Subject: [newbie] terminal and backspace Hi... after 2 GRUELING months of installtion question and FAQs.. I finally got Linux to run properly. I have two questions: 1) how do u enable backspace to work? 2) whenever I open up a terminal (or a terminal emulator), I can't see anything but pitch black screen... it won't even show "/usr/blahblah.." how do I fix this? Thanx in advance = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Terminal woes
I think it's a problem with the way Xterms display certain characters... that's always sitting at the end of the file in vi (did you try typing stuff in vi?), but if you cat the file, it doesn't show up. It also doesn't show up in nxterm or kvt or konsole or any of the other terminal emulators. So my guess is that vi puts a special character in to mark the end of the file, which the xterm displays in that odd way. It causes no problems; it just looks a little funny. On my computer, at least, it happens to every user, not just root. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Carl Flippin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 1:49 AM Subject: [newbie] Terminal woes I'm having a bit of trouble with vi. If I start vi as root, it works flawlessly, as a normal user, however, I get "ESC[91m~" as the first line. Does anyone know where this comes from? It seems to affect every xwindows type terminal.
