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With xfce4-terminal (on Manjaro): Running chromium "$(xclip -o)" will open the Chromium web browser and visit the content of the clipboard (which is assumed to be a single URL).

I want a desktop launcher to do exactly this. Creating a new launcher (right click on the desktop > create launcher) with the above command in the command field won't work: Chromium is opened, but the address bar says %24%28xclip%20-o%29. What is happening? The tiny bit of bash knowledge I have tells me that I need to escape some characters -- which ones? I tried different things like chromium \"$(xclip -o)\" and chromium "\$\(xclip -o\)", which produce similar outcomes, but I can't figure it out.

I found this specification of launcher items, but I seemingly fail to understand it well enough to apply it to my problem. Or am I completely on the wrong track?

Another application would be this: xfce4-screenshooter -f -s "$(date +screenshot_%Y-%m-%d_%T.png)" takes a screenshot and names the resulting file with a time stamp. It works being directly run in the terminal, but not when configured as an application shortcut in the keyboard settings. Analogously, the file is named $(date +screenshot_%Y-%d_%m-%T.png).

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I want to copy all files ending on .jpg from my local machine to the remote machine with scp. For this i have a small "script". It looks like this:

I am writing an application using ncurses and trying to get a CTRL-M keypress from the keyboard. Ncurses is returning CTRL-J (aka \n) whenever I press CTRL-M (aka \r), so I suspect somewhere it is doing a CRLF translation. My program is running in raw() mode so I don't think it should be doing any translation. Is this an ncurses problem or is it coming from somewhere upstrea, like the terminal driver?

How can I get it to give me raw key presses without translation?

FWIW I am using ncurses on Linux, running bash in xfce4-terminal. My TERM is xterm-256color. I've searched on Google and checked the ncurses docs but can't find anything on this issue.

I have a complex multiprocessing Python project which starts about 8-10 processes. These processes get different unique names and these names works fine inside the code. But if I check the running processes in a Terminal these processes don't have unique names. They have the same name as their parent's name (Actually the command line itself).

Used environment:

• Python 3.6.6
• RedHat Linux 7
• xfce4-terminal 0.8.7.4

A minimal code:

I have two different desktop hosts connected via their DisplayPort outputs to two DisplayPort inputs on the same 4K monitor:

• idyllic, a small-form-factor PC using the onboard Intel HD Graphics 500 of its Celeron N3350 processor. (I've also a similar system at another location with a Pentium N4200 processor and Intel 505 graphics that functions identically at 4K, as far as I can tell.)
• logarithmic, a fairly generic old ATX system with an Intel i5-3450 CPU and an ATI Radeon 7870 graphics card

Both systems are running fully up-to-date Debian 9 and are configured as identically as I can manage. In particular:

• The X server DPI is 96 on both systems, checked with grep DPI /var/log/Xorg.0.log and xdpyinfo | grep dots
• The Xft DPI is 120 on both systems, checked with xrdb -query | grep dpi.
• Both are configured with xrdb -cpp cpp -merge $HOME/.Xresources from an identical file, and I've confirmed that xrdb -query produces identical output on both. I also have exactly the same set of Source Code Pro fonts loaded into ~/.fonts on both systems.

On either of them I can start an 80-column xterm, configured with XTerm*VT100*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1 and they look identical and are 484 pixels wide. This doesn't change if I start the xterm client on the other machine displaying on the local X server using ssh -X.

However, urxvt is different depending on which X server I'm using. I've configured the font X resource as:

I've been using Ubuntu 16.04 only for a couple weeks. Yesterday I was connected to my terminal (at work) using ssh from my home windows laptop and I was trying to install remotely some programs to show me the full graphic desktop with no luck. Anyway, I now find myself full of no-longer-useful packages that I want to remove. This is a list obtained using the command:

I want to replace xfce4-terminal to urxvt but there is flickering of lines with bg property set (tabline, statusline) when switching tabs in vim (or neovim). I have no issue using xfce4-terminal which I have chosen for that reason (I used xterm before). But urxvt works faster and I do really like low-latency apps. I have found that under tmux I have no flickering but when I disable its status line everything comes back. I do not use tmux and I have just installed it cause some guy mentioned it. I do not mind to use tmux or gnu screen (have no effect under it) if it is invisible (not with statusline or whatever else).

man urxvt says I am using 9.22 version.

How can I create a macro (for instance LibreOffice calc) that runs a bash script in terminal (for instance xfce4-terminal). An example:

I am trying to automate the running of several tasks, but I need to run them as sudo.

I want to run them in separate terminals so I can watch the output of each.

Here is a sort of minimal example I have setup (because what I am trying to do is more complicated)

Setup two files - note that data is readable as root only and contains 3 lines of example text: