Linux specificTheXtermDebuggerTerminal
In recent CodeLite versions on Linux, the terminal used to show any output from the debugged program is xterm. While this does work, it's not everyone's idea of a modern gui program; in particular by default it has no scrollbar, and standard keyboard shortcuts for Copy/Cut/Paste/SelectAll etc don't work.
Fortunately xterm is highly configurable. Some distros have started this process: debian, openSUSE and fedora use black-on-white colouration rather than the default 1980s white-on-black, and openSUSE and fedora also have a basic scrollbar.
It's not hard to make further improvements. All you have to do is to put appropriate settings into a ~/.Xresources
file. I've created the following one:
XTerm*VT100.translations: #override \n\
<Key>Prior: scroll-back(1,page) \n\
<Key>Next: scroll-forw(1,page) \n\
Ctrl<Key>Home: scroll-back(1000,page) \n\
Ctrl<Key>End: scroll-forw(1000,page) \n\
<Btn1Up>: select-end(PRIMARY, CLIPBOARD, CUT_BUFFER0) \n
! Make the scrollbar behave as it should in a modern gui
XTerm*VT100.scrollbar.translations:#override \n\
<Btn5Down>:StartScroll(Forward) \n\
<Btn1Down>:StartScroll(Continuous) MoveThumb() NotifyThumb() \n\
<Btn4Down>:StartScroll(Backward) \n\
<Btn1Motion>:MoveThumb() NotifyThumb() \n\
<BtnUp>: NotifyScroll(Proportional) EndScroll()
! white text on black background
XTerm.VT100*color0: white
XTerm.VT100*color15: black
! Probably unnecessary, but to be safe:
XTerm*foreground: rgb:FF/FF/FF
XTerm*background: rgb:00/00/00
! Scrollbar on the right
XTerm*rightScrollBar: true
XTerm*ScrollBar: true
! Prevent entering more text from causing a scroll-to-end
XTerm*scrollTtyOutput: false
! Allow 5000 lines of history, rather than the default 64!
XTerm*savelines: 5000
!Triple-click selects the whole history
XTerm.vt100.on3Clicks: all
!Use a nice and modern font
xterm*faceName: Monospace:size=12:antialias=true
It won't take effect immediately unless you run the command:
$> xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
This gives you:
- White on black output; if you don't like that, change the appropriate section.
- A scrollbar on the right, which behaves in the way a modern one does.
- 5000 lines of scroll-back.
- Useful shortcuts: ** Prior (Page-Up) scrolls back one page. ** Next scrolls forward one page ** Ctrl-Home scrolls to the start of the output ** Ctrl-End scrolls to the end of the output
The Btn1Up line makes the selection go both to the Primary selection and to the Clipboard.
I've not bothered with a Cut shortcut, which is unlikely to be useful in this situation. However I've so far failed to make Ctrl-A do Select-All (if you find a way, please let me know). Instead the XTerm.vt100.on3Clicks: all line makes Select-All happen for a mouse left triple-click.
There are plenty more options that you can set if you wish; see the xterm man page and many other places that your favourite search-engine will find for you.