Saturday, February 23, 2013

Get Man to Stop Clearing the Screen On exit

Someone put their head in a funnel for this one.

If you've recently did any man page reading on Ubuntu/Linux (10.04 LTE), you've likely been frustrated by the screen being cleared -- especially after spending a large amount of time reading the man page.

NOTE: If you just want to change just the behaviour of man(1), use MANPAGER instead of PAGER.

Add to your .bashrc (or .profile):


    export PAGER="/usr/bin/less -X"


According to man 1 less

       -X or --no-init
              Disables  sending  the  termcap  initialization and deinitialization strings to the
              terminal.  This is sometimes desirable if the deinitialization  string  does  some‐
              thing unnecessary, like clearing the screen. 
 
 
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Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Pixar names main building after Steve Jobs - SlashGear

http://www.slashgear.com/pixar-names-main-building-after-steve-jobs-07255994/

Apple Told to Pay $368.2 Million to VirnetX in Trial- Bloomberg

> From: JM
>
> http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-07/apple-told-to-pay-368-2-million-to-virnetx-in-patent-trial-1-.html

A federal jury in Tyler, Texas, said Apple's FaceTime function, used on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad as well as Mac computers, infringed four VirnetX patents. VirnetX had won a $200 million settlement from Microsoft Corp. in 2010 over the same technology.

"This victory further establishes the importance of our patent portfolio," VirnetX Chief Executive Officer Kendall Larsen said in a statement.

The VirnetX patents cover the use of a domain-name service to set up virtual private networks, through which a website owner can interact with customers in a secure way or an employee can work at home and get access to a company's electronic files.