On Saturday 22 January 2011 05:45:27 Walter Dnes wrote: > As soon as some textmode applications in xterm stop, their output gets > wiped, and the xterm screen is restored to what it looked like before I > launched the app. Somebody thought they were being "helpful"; then > again, so did the designers of "Clippy". I don't know how many updates > ago the behaviour changed, but here's what happens...
Hmm ... as far as I can recall with xterm/aterm this behaviour for some
commands is the expected/default behaviour. I've looked into it for things
like top et al when launched like so on the desktop from e.g. fluxbox's menu:
aterm +sb -e top -d 2
Pressing q to quit top closes the aterm. Completely. :-(
I have not found a solution for it.
With xterm I would use the -hold option to stop xterm from collapsing like so:
xterm -geometry 144x30 -bg black -fg green -hold -e 'ps auxf'
Thereafter I use the window decoration to close xterm, because no other
keyboard inputs are accepted by it.
> Let's say I'm having a problem with packet loss to/from a certain
> internet server. I would run "mtr" which gives an ongoing enhanced
> traceroute display. When it gets to the router that's dropping packets
> I would hit "Q" and mtr quits.
That's how it always worked here.
> Before the update
> =================
> I would copy/paste the mtr output into an email, and send it off to
> whomever, with the output showing the packet-loss stats.
Are you sure you were not previously using the -r option to report the output
on the screen and now you don't?
> After the update
> ================
> As soon as mtr quits, its output gets wiped, and the xterm screen is
> restored to the state it was in before mtr was launched... helpful NOT!
try this:
mtr -c 3 -r 123.456.78.90
> I've discovered that I can suspend it with {CTRL-S}, but I shouldn't
> have to resort to that. Using Google, I found references to
> "man termcap", which stated that this behaviour was controlled by
> entries in /etc/termcap. Despite the fact that I have the termcap man
> page on my system, I do *NOT* have /etc/termcap. Does anyone have a
> sample /etc/termcap (or will ~/.termcap work?) to stop the screen
> restore after a text application quits?
I don't have /etc/termcap here ... and wouldn't know how to use it to be
honest.
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Regards,
Mick
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