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I'm sure it's obvious, but I have been pressing every key and can't select the "SDL12 and OpenAL source code" option in this installer. Pressing Enter/Return does either the OK or Cancel ...
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I'm looking for something like this: but preferably TUI (ncurses-based), with support for multiple stopwatches (and giving names to them) able to survive being closed and re-opened (a stopwatch only ...
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For a new TUI, I want to employ whiptail or dialog to make it a bit more visually appealing. Afaik, whiptail is more widely available and even preinstalled on many systems, which is a good reason to ...
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I'm trying to add support for line number on a bash project i like (mainly as a fun exercise). To start, i looked into the function that was setting up the status line (since i thought of inspiring ...
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Often times, I use unicode symbols (emoji, blocks, arrows, math...) in my typing, but it's very annoying to search-copy-paste them from the interweb, and it's also quite tedious to customize the ...
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I have a NCR EPoS terminal that has a dvi interface for the main screen and a vga for the secondary screen. Is it possible to have one application running in full screen on the dvi display and one ...
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I'm working on a Bash script for massive USB flash memory testing (using f3 under the hood). I need to display a table-like interface with multiple columns and cells. Currently I'm using printf with ...
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terminfo(5) manual page describes a set of capabilities wnum (maximum number of definable windows), cwin (define a window), wingo (go to window), wind (resize current window), but only one terminal ...
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In my debian8 terminal. sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target Now reboot to text mode,to input startx to enter into gui mode. To press ctrlaltf7,nothing happen. ctrlaltf1-f6 can switch ...
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Setting up the virtual terminal appearance on a box with Arch and urxvt, I find myself unable to display which X resources are in use in a particular VT instance. Take that workflow: Open an urxvt ...
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I'm looking to create a terminal-based environment to adapt my Bash script into. I want it to look like this:
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I've got brand new gentoo on my box. No X installed. I want to know correct way to setup changing keyboard layout while in text mode. (Basically I need a simple way of cycling between three keyboard ...
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I would like send a chat message (like mail chat) between two systems, the systems are inter-connected proxy IP.
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Under HP-UX Model :9000/800 O/S = B.11.11 Problem to type @ character on command prompt as well as in vi editor also. When I try to type "@" this character I won't get anything. line for export ...
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For example after doing apt-get update, it shows Reading package lists... 82% with the percentage changing in the same line. How is that achieved? Is it possible to use it in a bash script?
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