Take a look at the two command below.
The first will give you your terminal size in lines, columns.
IF your terminal can do it, (xterm for example), the second will auto adjust it for you...
The 24 and 80 in the 'printf' statement can be anything to ALMOST the size of your desktop...
I want to get the screen width and cursor positions.
When I used curses, all the screen content was cleared.
So Can I use curses to get the screen size without clearing anything in the window?
Or is there any other alternative???
I can use only C or C++. (0 Replies)
Hi,
Pleae help me on this. Normally, when we say read username, the cursor will come in the first position of next line, but I want the output of the below
Normal usage
-------------
please enter username:
_
I want like the below
----------------------
please enter username:
... (2 Replies)
Hi to all!
I'm a teacher of maths and physics in an italian high school in Milan, Italy.
I need a simple program that read the position of mouse cursor in function of time and write the coordinates in a text file. The time resolution have to be something like 1/10 sec or better (I have to know... (2 Replies)
hi all,
am trying to modify a ksh script to group server names together depending on the cluster they sit in. currently the script does a
find . -name '*.pid'
to find all running servers and prints out their pids and names.
current output looks something like this :
serverA ... (1 Reply)
I need to get the cursor position, and put it inside a variable. Problem is, i don't have the tput command, or ncurses.
Apparently I was supposed to try the following:
echo -e '\E
But I don't get a value or anything. Please help. (3 Replies)
Hi there.
It's easier to explain this with a pseudo code, I hope this makes sense:
var1=hello
echo $var1
some kind of loop
echo loop counter
done
How do I hold the cursor position immediately behind the last output so I'd get something like:
hello123456789
DOS used to use ","... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: MuntyScrunt
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
yeahconsole
YEAHCONSOLE(1) [FIXME: manual] YEAHCONSOLE(1)NAME
yeahconsole - drop-down X terminal emulator wrapper
SYNOPSIS
yeahconsole [-h] [-e command]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the yeahconsole command.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
yeahconsole is a wrapper for X terminal emulators that provide a drop-down terminal embedding other terminal emulators
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below. Any other argument is passed to the X terminal emulator.
-h
Show summary of options and supported xresources.
-e command
command will be run in the X terminal emulator used. If specified this must be the last option since everything after the -e will be
interpreted as the command.
RESOURCES
The resources from the embedded X terminal emulator will be used and are documented in the corresponding manpage for your X terminal
emulator. The specific resources for yeahconsole follow:
restart
0 or 1, 1 should restart the terminal. Default is 0.
term
terminal to use, valid values: urxvt, urxvtc, xterm. Default is xterm.
screenWidth
width of the terminal. Default is the display width.
consoleHeight
number of lines of the console. Default is 10.
xOffset
x position. Default is set to 0.
aniDelay
delay for the slide animation. Default is 40.
stepSize
step size in pixels for the animation 0 will disable the animation. Default is set 1.
handleWidth
width for the resize handle. Default is 3.
handleColor
color for the resize handle. Default is grey70.
toggleKey
key combo that toggles yeahconsole. Default is ControlAlt+y.
keyBigger
increase height of yeahconsole. Default is Control+KP_Add.
keySmaller
decrease height of yeahconsole. Default is Control+KP_Subtract.
keyFull
toggle fullscreen mode. Default is Alt+F11.
SEE ALSO
xterm (1), rxvt (1).
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Damian Viano debian@damianv.com.ar for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted
to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by
the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2006 Damian Viano
[FIXME: source] April 15, 2006 YEAHCONSOLE(1)