Xephyr – Nested X Server

2014-04-24 1 min read Fedora
Nested X-Server is running a X server root window within your running X-windows session like Gnome or KDE. This could be useful if you want to keep all you ssh windows in one window or maybe run all you IRC, firefox, chat and others inside one window, or maybe run another window manager itself. Lets first install :: sudo yum install xorg-x11-server-Xephyr Once done, you can define an alias to do the magic with your nested server. Continue reading

Check out all the colors on you X window system.

2012-02-24 1 min read Fedora
If you ever wondered what combination of some colors would look like but did not really feel like setting them in your xterm just to check them out. Or if you wanted to know about all the colors on you X window system then you can install this utility called xcolorsel. [][1]xcolorsel You will need to setup the rpm-shere repo for this. Using this tool is very intuitive, just select the color and then press set as foreground/background to check how the color combination would look. Continue reading

Try all colors in xterm with script before setting the color

2011-03-18 2 min read bash Fedora Learning Linux
If you are looking for testing the colors on how they would look like in the xterm before you set the color then here is a small script for you. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> #!/bin/bash -<br /> #===============================================================================<br /> #<br /> # FILE: xterm_colors-test. Continue reading

xterm – select font name and size from command line and set it as default

2010-05-05 2 min read Fedora Linux
I have been very busy last week and specially yesterday with 20 hours of continueous work, but managed to get this working :). When you right click on Xterm with Ctrl pressed, there pops up a menu for selecting the size of the font. I have always wondered how to set this as default font and/or use this from the command line. So I searched my old homedir and looked for few of the docs that I had to get the information. Continue reading