VTTEST(1) General Commands Manual VTTEST(1)NAME
vttest - test VT100-type terminal
SYNOPSIS
vttest [options] [24x80.132]
DESCRIPTION
Vttest is a program designed to test the functionality of a VT100 terminal (or emulator thereof). It tests both display (escape sequence
handling) and keyboard.
The program is menu-driven and contains full on-line operating instructions. To run a given menu-item, you must enter its number. You can
run all menu-items (for a given level) by entering an asterisk, i.e, `*'.
OPTIONS
You can specify the screen geometry in the form [24x80.132], i.e., 24 lines, 80 minimum columns, 132 maximum columns. If your terminal
does not switch between 80 and 132 columns you may specify 24x80.80, for example, to avoid a misleading display.
Other options are:
-f file
specify a file containing a DRCS (soft character definition) string.
-l log test results to vttest.log.
-p use padding, e.g., for a VT100 connected to a high-speed line.
-8 use 8-bit controls (this can be changed with a menu option).
AUTHOR
Per Lindberg (mcvax,seismo)!enea!suadb!lindberg sometime 1985.
Modified by Thomas Dickey from June 1996, to support nonstandard screen geometry, VT220-VT420, ISO color and xterm-specific tests.
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pdmenu - simple full screen menu program
SYNOPSIS
pdmenu [options] [menufile ...]
DESCRIPTION
pdmenu is a simple menu program that displays a menu from which the user can pick programs to run. Submenus are supported.
When you run pdmenu , you will be presented with a menu. Simply use the arrow keys to move to the program you want to run, and press Enter
to run the program. When the program ends, you will be returned to the menu.
If you are running pdmenu at the linux console, and gpm is running, you can move the mouse and click to navigate through the menus.
Some menu items are actually submenus, and will take you to another menu. Others may cause a text edit window to be displayed, where you
can enter parameters for a command before running it. Still others may run a command, and display the output in a window.
KEYS
Here are all keys you need to get around in pdmenu:
[up arrow], 8, -
Move up one line in the menu.
[down arrow], 2, +
Move down one line.
[page up], [ctrl-u]
Move up an entire screen.
[page down], [space], [ctrl-v]
Move down an entire screen.
[home] Move to the first entry of the menu.
[end] Move to the last entry of the menu.
q Exit the current menu, or exit pdmenu if used on the first menu. Does not work in the text edit windows. (This will not work if
there is also a hotkey set up for 'q', the hotkey takes precedence.)
ESC Close the currently active window, and return to the previous window, or exit pdmenu if used on the first menu.
[ctrl-c]
Exit pdmenu immediately.
[ctrl-r]
Force a redraw of the screen.
[enter]
Launch the selected menu item. In a text edit window, closes the window.
[backspace]
Performs a destructive backspace in a text edit window.
hotkeys
Some letters of a menu item may be highlighted. These are hotkeys; simply press the highlighted letter to select the next menu item
with that hotkey.
OPTIONS -h, --help
Display usage summary and exit.
-c, --color
Use color. By default, pdmenu will display in black and white mode. If your terminal supports color, use this switch.
-u, --unpark
"Unparks" the cursor from the bottom of the screen. When this option is selected, the cursor moves to be on the line of the menu
that is currently selected. This makes pdmenu more useable with speech synthesis systems that need to know what line is the current
line on the screen.
-mmenuid, --menu=menuid
Instead of displaying the first menu from the menufile, select the menu with the id "menuid" and display it.
-q, --quit
By default, at the opening menu, 'q' will exit pdmenu. If the -q switch is specified, this will not be the case. This is useful if
you want to prevent the user from ever exiting pdmenu. (This also disables control-c and the right mouse button from exiting
pdmenu.)
-r, --retro
This makes pdmenu use an old style for displaying menus. Menus in the background don't change color, or lose their hotkeys. Note
that this will also be a little bit faster than the default on slow terminals and the like.
-l, --lowbit
By default, pdmenu will use nice high bit line drawing characters if it thinks your terminal is capable. Sometimes it gets this
wrong and you get borders that look all messed up. Then you should use this --lowbit switch to force it to use low bit line drawing
characters.
-n, --numeric
Disables the use of the keys 2 and 8 for moving up and down. This is useful if you want to use numbered hotkeys.
menufile ...
Specify a menu definition file or files to use. If you specify multiple files, they will all be loaded in together. By default, the
first menu in the first menufile will be displayed when pdmenu starts, but this can be overridden by the --menu= option. If menu-
file is "-", pdmenu will read standard input as a menu file.
NOTES
To use the mouse to cut and paste as usual, hold down on the shift key when you use the mouse.
FILES
/etc/pdmenurc
Default config file. See pdmenurc(5) for details.
~/.pdmenurc
If this exists, it overrides /etc/pdmenurc. See pdmenurc(5) for details.
ENVIRONMENT
COLORTERM
Set this variable to make pdmenu to use color by default.
DISTRIBUTION
Redistribution is subject to the GNU public license.
BUGS
See the file BUGS that came with pdmenu for the current buglist.
AUTHOR
Joey Hess, <joey@kitenet.net>.
SEE ALSO pdmenurc(5)1.3.2 August 23 2011 PDMENU(1)