> > The HyperDoc system looks very dated to me as well. I do not see myself > > using it. To make matters worse, when I ask it to solve an equation, it > > tries to launch `xterm`, which is not available on my system, and hangs. > > What does "not available" mean here? 'xterm' is standard component > of X11, available in all Linux distributions that I know about and > in many other systems. Current Linux distributions allow you choice > of installed packages and you may decide to not install xterm. > Or do you mean that you are not allowed to add system components > to system that you use?
What I mean is that `xterm` is something our forefathers wielded. Even X11 itself is optional now as Wayland is widely offered. Even if maybe you can expect people to be able to install `xterm`, there is no reason to think they will like your opening an `xterm` window for them — this is one side of the _«dated»_ characteristic. A better way to open a terminal is to consult the `TERM` environment variable and open what it says. To be concrete, here is the situation on my current system: ``` % which 'xterm' xterm not found % echo "$TERM" alacritty ``` > > Annoyingly, HyperDoc pops up every time I restart my FriCAS Jupyter > > notebook. This is an annoyance that I wish I knew how to disable. > > Hmm, I can not comment on Jupyter, but on command line you can define > shell alias like: > > alias fricas='fricas -noht' This is exactly what I needed! And it is listed in the help message. I had not noticed. ``` % fricas -h … -ht | -noht use HyperDoc (default: -ht) … ``` I just checked and this works great when added to `fricaskernel.py`. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to fricas-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/CAB-2Q0-tJK%3DqVcSNcYeyPeR11ACMTZu8kiryo91TLm-84B%3DoNQ%40mail.gmail.com.
