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On 04/03/2018 02:50 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> Lately, I've noticed that text apps under xterm snap back to the |
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> original screen after the app finishes. This doesn't happen with |
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> all apps. When I hit "q" in "top", the output stays on the screen. |
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> But other apps like "mtr" and "vim" and "less" restore the screen from |
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> which they were launched, which is extremely annoying. |
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"mtr", "vim", and "less" all three use what Xterm calls the "Alternate |
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Screen". You can see this while the programs are running by looking at |
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the VT Options menu (Ctrl+Middle Click) and seeing that the "Show |
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Alternate Screen" is checked. |
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"top" on the otherhand does not use the "Alternate Screen". |
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There may be a way to disable the "Alternate Screen", but I don't know |
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for sure, muchless what it would be. I'd suggest Reading the ""Fine |
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Manpage. (Or at least searching said manpage.) |
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> A long time ago I ran into this problem and was advised to add |
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> "XTerm*titeInhibit: true" in .Xresources. It seems to have stopped |
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> working recently. Last night on a web forum people were comparing |
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> response times from 1.1.1.1 DNS server. I ran "mtr" in xterm but the |
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> output would disapper entirely when I hit "q". I managed to freeze the |
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> output with {CTRL}{S} so I could do a copy/paste into a post. But I'd |
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> like a clean solution rather than a clunky workaround. |
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I would be shocked to learn that a title (bar?) related setting would |
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have anything to do with the "Alternate Screen". - If this worked, I'm |
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guessing that it did so by breaking something else that would trigger |
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the "Alternate Screen". (There's a 1000% chance that I'm wrong here.) |
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Please let us know what you find. |
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Grant. . . . |
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