[lug] Terminal resetting

Charles Morrison cmorrison at greeleynet.com
Tue Nov 5 13:17:07 MST 2002


I've used setfont successfully on occasion.

Chip Atkinson wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Does anyone know how to restore a freaked out xterm window?
> 
> Here's what happens:
> 
> grep string * (and there's a file with a bunch of binary stuff in it)
> Then the xterm window comes back either all black or the characters are
> invisible or something like that.
> 
> I can easily "cure" it by exiting and starting a new terminal, but I was
> wondering if anyone knows how to fix it.
> 
> I've tried
> stty sane
> reset
> tset
> 
> to no avail.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Chi
> 
> 
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