Kevin Pauli

126 reputation

	126 reputation	bio	website	dragon-research.com	visits	member for	6 months
2 badges		location	United States		seen	Nov 24 '12 at 5:26

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Nov 22	comment	Lightest weight ubuntu desktop for text editing in big terminal windows? This sounds promising. I really do not want a desktop at all. I installed xterm, but when I try to run it I get "Xt error: can't open display" and "DISPLAY is not set". Googling tells me to set DISPLAY in my bashrc, but I am not running a bash shell at this point, right? I believe I am running tty, since the server has just started? If it is not obvious from the nature of my questions, I'm somewhat of a linux noob.
Nov 20	comment	How do I get more than 80 columns in command line mode? Thanks, I appreciate it. In case it is not going to be possible, and I do end up needing a desktop, I have asked another question here: askubuntu.com/questions/219841/… about which is the lightest weight desktop to give me what I need.
Nov 20	asked	Lightest weight ubuntu desktop for text editing in big terminal windows?
Nov 20	awarded	Student
Nov 20	comment	How do I get more than 80 columns in command line mode? I added COLUMNS=200 to ~/.bashrc, then logged out and back in, but it didn't seem to help. I should point out that I don't even install any kind of graphical desktop, since I wanted it totally lean b/c it's in a VM on a laptop that's a few years old. That's why I went with ubuntu minimal. So it seems that the terminal is already started before I even have a chance to login and run my .bashrc...
Nov 19	asked	How do I get more than 80 columns in command line mode?
Nov 19	awarded	Supporter