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The standard terminal emulator of LXDE.

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Opening a terminal other than xterm, running a command on it, and not closing the terminal after it successfully finished

I have the following script in my Arch Linux box: #!/bin/bash xterm -e "sudo pacman -Syu;bash" This will fire up an xterm and run the command sudo pacman -Syu on it. Because of the ;bash part, it will not close the xterm window once the command is…
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Set solarized scheme on LXTerminal

I installed the solarized theme for vim but it looks quite ugly. The documentation says, that I should also enable the solarized theme in my terminal, which is the LXTerminal. Therefore I tried to setup my terminal via ~/.Xresources with…
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logname: no login name

I am trying to understand the differences between logname and LOGNAME from Difference between logname and $LOGNAME and https://askubuntu.com/questions/490620/difference-between-logname-and-logname On Lubuntu 18.04, why did I get logname: no login…
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How to set/change LXTerminal font for standard user?

debian8 is a standard user on my OS (Debian8+LXDE). I follow below steps to change the font on LXterminal. Launch LXterminal after logging in as debian8. Click Edit > Preferences. The default font size is 10 px, which is small. I change the font…
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PID of a bash process not captured by $!

While this part of the script works fine: geany & pid=$! ... kill -KILL $pid This, instead, does not. lxterminal & pid=$! ... kill -KILL $pid Looks like a bash process remains in the background, but it is not identified by $pid. How can I get the…
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Pasting "Foo" into LXterminal in XFCE produces "0~Foo1~"

I use LXTerminal 0.20. with XFCE 4.12.2 on Linux Mint 18.2 (upgraded from 18.1). When I copy text in some desktop app and paste it into an LXTerminal session, I get 0~ and 1~ prepended and appended, respectively, to the text. So, Hello…
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How to scroll up and down in a terminal with PgUp and PgDn keys?

In gnome-terminal, lxterminal and mlterm under Lubuntu 16.04, when pressing PgUp nothing happens, and the symbol ~ appears when PgDn is pressed, but the information won't scroll up or down. This is not the case for navigators and text editors, where…
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Latex expressions shown in a terminal

Is there any way to show a graphic Latex expression in a (textual) terminal? Particularly, can an LXTerminal show the rendering of a Latex equation? Alternatively, is there any terminal emulator that allows it? Note: This question is posted here…
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lxterminal in the netstat output

Can you explain the following lines in the netstat output? Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers) Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path unix 2 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 37133819…
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NCURSES SW runs in lxterminal, but doesn't run in a native Linux terminal

I wrote a "complex" C program using the ncurses library. It "correctly" runs in a lxterminal or gnome-terminal session; but doesn't run in a "native Linux terminal" session without X started (obtained both restarting the PC without X or using…
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How can I keep terminal input and output separate. So that what I am typing does not get confused by output

What I mean by that is when a program is running (let's say, telnet), any inputted text gets lost when something is written on the screen. For example, on a chat server, I type > Hey, I'd like to ask y Suddenly I receive a string, and now my screen…
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Transparent LXTerminal on LXDE

I've been trying to set transparent terminal background in lxterminal on Arch Linux but with no luck. Setting transparent background in preferences does nothing, so does setting transparent to 1 in lxterminal.conf. I remember it being transparent in…
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What is the server-client relationship between a terminal emulator, a window manager and a X server processes?

In APUE (see the figure below), how do a terminal emulator process and a window manager (e.g. openbox) process communicate? Is a temrinal emulator process a client of a window manager process, based on Unix domain socket? What is the relation of X…
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'CTRL-ALT-T' not working in Lubuntu 18.04

I'm new to Linux, ubuntu, and lubuntu so this might be an easy fix. Today I installed Lubuntu 18.04 and suddenly after a reboot the lxterminal won't launch via 'CTRL-ALT-T' anymore. It still works perfectly fine after launching through run or the…
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How to stop appearance of ^T% in the first line when I open a new lxterminal tab with ^T in zsh?

Steps to reproduce: Have zsh as default shell. Open a new terminal. for example, with Ctrl+Alt+T. Press Ctrl+Shift+T to open a new terminal tab. ^T% appears as the first line I'm running ubuntu 11.10 with lxde and zsh-4.3.11. Gnome-terminal…
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