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I have installed axel and set it to get my firefox downloads through flashgot. It works but the Axel window is not visible - so cannot know when the download starts and ends, its speed etc.

I have recently installed Lubuntu Precise. Before I was using the same but the main installation was Xubuntu and did not have this problem.

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  • are you using any script?
    – green
    Aug 25, 2012 at 13:52
  • It's working fine for me.
    – green
    Aug 25, 2012 at 13:58
  • no scripts installed in firefox. after reinstalling axel, the same problem
    – user47206
    Aug 25, 2012 at 14:01
  • I'll try on Lubuntu and get back to you.
    – green
    Aug 25, 2012 at 18:23
  • added the (tested) answer.
    – green
    Aug 26, 2012 at 7:52

2 Answers 2

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When you initiate the download the status is not shown in the terminal installed in lubuntu, but on 'xterm'. All you have to do is to install xterm:

sudo apt-get install xterm

'xterm' comes installed with Ubuntu and Xubuntu, that's why it worked fine when you had Xubuntu with lubuntu-desktop installed.

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  • i had lxterm, xfce4-term and gnome terminal installed, i didn't imagine something else was missing, but after installing xterm it is ok
    – user47206
    Aug 27, 2012 at 9:47
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Is a window created with other console downloaders? (wget, aria2).

start any long download and run in terminal ps -C xterm,axel ww.Also you can try to run xterm from terminal xterm. Try the following variants:

  1. 'Alt+Tab' to take out the hidden window. Sometimes it helps. But I don't know if this combo works in lubuntu.
  2. Write down a command line for axel manually in the flashgot options.
  3. Reinstall flashgot.
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  • no window with wget either. ps -C xterm,axel ww gives just ` PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND`. alt-tab is real in lubuntu but axel is not there.
    – user47206
    Aug 25, 2012 at 21:23
  • could not find a command line that worked, and that was not the question anyway. reinstalling flashgot did not helped
    – user47206
    Aug 25, 2012 at 21:32
  • downgrading flashgot version did not help
    – user47206
    Aug 25, 2012 at 21:37
  • I meant any flashgot-axel download. What does the command xterm give? Possibly you don't have the xterm program or it is broken.
    – seeline
    Aug 26, 2012 at 5:11
  • yes, that was it. but the other answer is more up to the point so i'll make that the one. upvote and thnk you
    – user47206
    Aug 27, 2012 at 9:46

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