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Re: Logging xterm contents to a file.
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Gary Johnson wrote:
On 2007-05-08, Mansoorali Kudsi wrote:
Hi,
Really dumb question. but hope somebody replies to this one?
Is it possible to save the entire contents of a xterm window into a
file? (using anything other than "script")
e.g. for a putty window, we have an option of logging all the contents
of the putty window into a file
just by doing a right click and giving the file name and path in the
properties window.
Do we have a similar option for an xterm window in Cygwin?
Xterm has such an option but the last time I checked (Nov. 2006) it
was not enabled in the Cygwin xterm binary. You may have to build
xterm yourself with the "--enable-logging" configure option.
Logging can then be enabled and disabled via the Ctrl-left- or
Ctrl-middle-mouse-button menu. (I don't remember which and I don't
have an xterm handy at the moment.) The log file will be written to
your $HOME directory with the name XtermLog.<PID> where <PID> is the
process ID of the xterm's process.
well... the logging operation doesn't print the whole window. It writes
text to a file concurrently with writing it to the screen. That may be
what he wanted, but I read it as printing the current screen to a file.
Where I'm sitting at the moment I don't have cygwin at hand, but since the
printer support in xterm isn't ifdef'd I'd assume it's available in the
Cygwin binary. (See the top of the control/left mouse menu - grayed out
menu entries are still user-configurable).
Logging historically was ifdef'd because in X11R5 (early 1990's),
the setuid xterm was known to be insecure. Cygwin doesn't have
setuid xterm, so (if there were a reliable way to determine this
in a configure script), it would be reasonable to always enable
the feature.
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