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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Bringing an Xterm window to top Post 302346327 by pidge66 on Friday 21st of August 2009 02:22:36 PM
Old 08-21-2009
Thanks! Indeed, I didn't know the right questions to ask nor the right information to supply. I'm still new to Linux and am dizzy dealing with the many variations of tools.

OK, now I have found out that the windows manager I'm running is twm, and the xterm configuration file is .Xresources. I'm accessing the linux machine through vncserver (I found out about twm by looking at the file, .vnc/xstartup.)

Given the above, can anyone tell me what parameter(s) to configure so I can raise a xterm window to the top without having to find its title bar and click on it? I've googled a few parameters but none of them seems to work:

Mwm*focusAutoRaise: True
Maker*focusAutoRaise: True
Xterm*AutoRaise: on

Is there any documentation on the parameters the .Xresources can set?
Thanks!!
 

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set_color(1)                                                           fish                                                           set_color(1)

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set_color - set_color - set the terminal color set_color - set the terminal color Synopsis set_color [-v --version] [-h --help] [-b --background COLOR] [COLOR] Description Change the foreground and/or background color of the terminal. COLOR is one of black, red, green, brown, yellow, blue, magenta, purple, cyan, white and normal. o -b, --background Set the background color o -c, --print-colors Prints a list of all valid color names o -h, --help Display help message and exit o -o, --bold Set bold or extra bright mode o -u, --underline Set underlined mode o -v, --version Display version and exit Calling set_color normal will set the terminal color to whatever is the default color of the terminal. Some terminals use the --bold escape sequence to switch to a brighter color set. On such terminals, set_color white will result in a grey font color, while set_color --bold white will result in a white font color. Not all terminal emulators support all these features. This is not a bug in set_color but a missing feature in the terminal emulator. set_color uses the terminfo database to look up how to change terminal colors on whatever terminal is in use. Some systems have old and incomplete terminfo databases, and may lack color information for terminals that support it. Download and install the latest version of ncurses and recompile fish against it in order to fix this issue. Version 1.23.1 Sun Jan 8 2012 set_color(1)
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