Automatic line break aterm

Rhadamanthysan · 12-30-2015, 08:22 PM

First, sorry about the english, not my primary language.
switched from kde to fluxbox, installed aterm from SBo. When a command is too long, kde's konsole automatically starts a new line upon reaching the terminal's edge, but in my aterm it just continues endlessly on the same line. what i want is the same behavior than konsole.Thank you all.

Didier Spaier · 12-31-2015, 12:56 AM

I didn't find the solution, but: why not just use xterm?

xterm has much more features than aterm and is actively maintained by Thomas E. Dickey.

TIP: in an xterm, press one of the Ctrl keys then make a right, middle or left click to see different menus.

References:
http://invisible-island.net/
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.html
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xterm
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...c_transparency
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...n_Transparency

elyk · 12-31-2015, 02:52 AM

Is your COLUMNS environment variable set correctly?

pzognar · 12-31-2015, 07:08 AM

I'll guess because aterm has transparency whereas xterm does not?

BTW, just because one switches from KDE does not mean one cannot still keep using konsole. Well, unless one also completely uninstalled KDE.

dugan · 12-31-2015, 03:36 PM

I'd recommend terminator. It's also on SBo.

davleema · 01-01-2016, 07:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rhadamanthysan

First, sorry about the english, not my primary language.
switched from kde to fluxbox, installed aterm from SBo. When a command is too long, kde's konsole automatically starts a new line upon reaching the terminal's edge, but in my aterm it just continues endlessly on the same line. what i want is the same behavior than konsole.Thank you all.

I used to have the same problem a few years ago. It wasn't directly related to the terminal I used (Xterm, xfce-terminal,...), but appeared to be caused by my custom bash prompt (some colors added). If the bash prompt contains some characters that are not properly escaped, you can indeed witness the behaviour you mentioned, i.e the commandline, and even the prompt, being overtyped on the same line when using very long commands.
Try with a simple bash prompt (no colors or other fancy stuff), and see if the problem persists.

David

Rhadamanthysan · 01-02-2016, 05:31 PM

no fancy prompt at all. Columns says 97. no overtype on prompt, it's just goes on. no konsole cause i skipped all kde packages on install. xterm requires extra stuff (like composite manager) for transparency (so i prefer aterm).

davleema · 01-04-2016, 12:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rhadamanthysan

no fancy prompt at all. Columns says 97. no overtype on prompt, it's just goes on. no konsole cause i skipped all kde packages on install. xterm requires extra stuff (like composite manager) for transparency (so i prefer aterm).

afaik aterm is quite old (last update stems from 2007 !!). Newer terminals like Terminator (my new favorite) or xfce-terminal also support transparent backgrounds.