1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Guys: Anyone have ideas on where can I get information or references if I want to learn on how to program with UNIX GUIs? If you do have ideas please let me know. Its a big help. (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Would someone tell me how to save changes in xterm once I've made them using the program options? For example, I type: xterm -bg red and my console window changes color. But how can I now make this attribute save, so that it becomes the default when I relaunch xterm? Any help you can offer... (1 Reply)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello all, This is a lame question because I have been working with unix for some years now, but anyway here it is; What is an xterm? ivo (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to add a title to this xterm window but cannot figure out how. Can anybody assist with this? xterm +sb -geom 80x25 -ls -tn xterms -tm "intr ^q" -name unikix -e $UNIKIX/bin/unikixl (1 Reply)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi I'm trying to launch admintool via an export DISPLAY. that is i am doing a rlogin to serverB from serverA. i did the command export DISPLAY=serverA:0 but it prompted me the error DISPLAY=serverA:0: is not an identifier i have searched the forum but there is not much things on this error... (3 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi friends, I have a script that sets the env variable path based on different conditions. Now the new path variable setting should not done in the same terminal or same shell. Only a new terminal or new shell should have the new path env variable set. I am able to do this only as follows: >cd... (1 Reply)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a xterm window opening from my Java code. This xterm is opened from the code in this manner: // to run shell command in a xterm window public synchronized void rshd(String title, String commd) { String xt = "xterm -sb -T "; String xtm = xt + title + " -e " + commd; Runtime run =... (1 Reply)

8. Solaris

Hello, I have a multithreading program (just two threads) which works on Solaris 8. I use pthread library to synchronize threads. I try to run it on Solaris 10 (on another computer). All sources was re-compiled but behaviour of my program is not the same. The thread 2 is never executed when... (3 Replies)

9. Slackware

My understanding is that /usr/share/terminfo/x/ is populated from a standard set of files and not by compiling, i.e. tic, termcaps. I am getting from both regular user and root when issuing: man tic ------> WARNING: terminal is not fully functional tset -q --------> xterm: unknown terminal type... (2 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Well, apparently anyway. I have a Solaris 10/08 install using vi (not vim) and when I use vi to edit a file or go into cron, the screen goes into 25/80 mode and I have to send a reset or hard reset to get it back to my screen size (190x72 in this case). vi should be using the TERM environment... (7 Replies)