Checking how many colors my terminal emulator supports
Is there a reliable way to check how many colors my terminal emulator supports?
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What is the server-client relationship between a terminal emulator, a window manager and a X server processes?
What is the relation of X server process to a terminal emulator process and a window manager process? Specifically:
How important is it that $TERM is correct?
I recently switched from rxvt-unicode to st. This means I went from $TERM=rxvt-unicode-256color to $TERM=st-256color.
Why does closing terminal emulator window terminate a bash process with SIGHUP trap changed not to terminate?
In a bash shell in a terminal emulator window of lxterminal, I run
How to determine the character encoding that a terminal uses in a C/C++ program?
I’ve noticed that SyncTERM uses a different character encoding than the default MacOS terminal emulator, and they’re incompatible with one another. For example, say you want to print a block character in a format string. In SyncTERM, which uses the IBM Extended ASCII character encoding, you would use an octal escape sequence like 261. In Terminal.app (and probably iTerm2 as well), this just prints a question mark. Since these terminals use UTF-8, you need to use the uxxxx escape sequence.
What is the most portable method of launching a terminal emulator?
Say I need to write a script that will launch a terminal and execute a command and I need that to work on various systems. How can I do that in a safe and portable manner?
Why do multiple instances of Mate-terminal have the same PID?
I’ve noticed, that all mate-terminal instances I start, be it inside a mate-terminal or via a link button, have the same PID.
Can’t apply brightness to terminal’s background color
I have a problem with colors in my terminal emulator. I am using LXTerminal as my terminal emulator and LXDE as my desktop environment.
How are long command lines ( > $COLUMNS ) automatically wrapped to a new line?
There are several points where I/O is passed through, some of which (to my knowledge) are the shell, pty, tty, termios, terminal emulator application. In most terminal emulators, long command lines (ones that exceed current $COLUMNS) are wrapped to a new line before the user submits the command by pressing Enter. Also, the line is wrapped backward to the line above when the appropriate number of characters are removed from the command line as one would expect.
Which terminal type am I using?
I have tested this with both Ubuntu 12.04 and Debian 7. When I do