When I telnet (ssh) over to my Fedora system, I find the colors horrible. For instance, regular files are white text, which is fine, but directories show up as dark blue which is virtually invisible against the black background). Additionally, when using vi, I find the colors great doing perl... (3 Replies)
Hi everyone,
could you explain why am I not able to bring up xclock, or for that matter any Xtools (xcalc etc...), in the background?
When I execute:
xclock &
This brings up the clock in the foreground, my focus is on the clock, not back in my command window.
Any suggestion?
... (2 Replies)
Hi
I want to do something that might sound strange.
I have a code that in written in C and is executed at startup (it's a custom process). It occasionally calls some bash scripts.
The process doesn't have any terminal associated with it.
One thing I don't know how to do is to start a... (5 Replies)
Hi folks,
I would like to know how to hook up an xterm to another process.
Here is a high level view of what I am looking for
1. Main program starts
2. It creates an new xterm window
3. It then forks a second process & passes the xterm handle to it
4. The second process uses the second... (4 Replies)
Hey all, I need to launch a script from within 2 other scripts that can run independently of the two parent scripts... Im having a hard time doing this, if anyone knows how please let me know.
More detail.
ScriptA (bash), ScriptB (ksh), ScriptC (bash)
ScriptA, launches ScriptB
ScirptB,... (7 Replies)
hi rhel6 gurus
i have set up a rhel6.2 db server.
i have data base admins needing to connect to this rhel6 derver via reflectionx. reflectionx is set correctly but when attempting to test connectivity by 'xclock' the following message pops up : -bash:xclock; command not found.
anyone out... (1 Reply)
Hi, I have written a script that allows me to repetitively play a music file $N times, which is specified through user input. However, if I want to exit the script before it has finished looping $N times, if I use CTRL+c, I have to CTRL+c however many times are left in order to complete the loop.... (9 Replies)
This is where I am getting stuck and I am wondering if I can get some help from the community.
I log into putty with X11 forward enable
echo $DISPLAY
DISPLAY=localhost:10.0
export DISPLAY
xclock ( I do see a clock)
:)
I am happy that I finally get to install Oracle 11g on solaris... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am using Xming tool to open the my RHEL machine remotely in UI mode. When I use xclock command using 'root', the command works properly and I can see the clock pop-up. However, when I run the 'xclock' command using oracle user I get an error, which is shown in the attached file.
Can... (6 Replies)
Hello and thanks in advance for any assistance anyone can offer me
The fast & dirty question is... Could someone please tell me which file would open an xterm session into $HOME/Desktop instead of /$HOME?
The longer version is.... I was reading about login scripts when I noticed my SSH... (3 Replies)