On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:56:02PM -0800, Bill Longman wrote
You can always call it back up. The other window, that is. Just
Ctrl-middle-click the xterm and choose Show alternate screen.
Presto.
It's saved my bacon more than once
Yes that works. There's an even better option
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:37:41PM +, Mick wrote
Excellent solution for the OP's question, but what can you do to stop
the terminal collapsing completely, when it is launched to just run
a command that exits after it runs?
Once I realized that my problem was an xterm option, not a
On 01/21/2011 09:45 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
As soon as some textmode applications in xterm stop, their output gets
wiped, and the xterm screen is restored to what it looked like before I
launched the app. Somebody thought they were being helpful; then
again, so did the designers of Clippy.
On Monday 24 January 2011 20:56:02 Bill Longman wrote:
You can always call it back up. The other window, that is. Just
Ctrl-middle-click the xterm and choose Show alternate screen.
Presto.
It's saved my bacon more than once
Bill
Yes! I had forgotten about that! Thanks Bill. :-)
On Saturday 22 January 2011 05:45:27 Walter Dnes wrote:
As soon as some textmode applications in xterm stop, their output gets
wiped, and the xterm screen is restored to what it looked like before I
launched the app. Somebody thought they were being helpful; then
again, so did the designers
As soon as some textmode applications in xterm stop, their output gets
wiped, and the xterm screen is restored to what it looked like before I
launched the app. Somebody thought they were being helpful; then
again, so did the designers of Clippy. I don't know how many updates
ago the behaviour
6 matches
Mail list logo
