Table of Contents

List of configurable parameters 1/4

The parameters below affect the program's visual appearance.

Warning: do not change parameters you do not understand. If you are unsure, test the new value before saving the configuration. If any problems occur, reset the parameter to standard value.

FRAME

Choose a character for drawing horizontal lines on the screen. Try all settings and select which one looks best on your screen. The option line graphics does not work in some terminals or with some fonts.

CMD_LINES

Number of lines (2-4) that the command or input line occupies on the screen.

XTERM_TITLE

Change the title of the terminal window when CLEX runs in an X Window environment. CLEX tries to restore the original title at exit.
The title is:

• clex: user@host - ready
• clex: command - executing a command
• [clex: command] - execution is finished

PROMPT

Command line prompt. The default value is (without the quotes):

'$s $p '

Following substitutions are performed:

• $h --> hostname
• $p --> prompt character according to the shell (e.g. $ or #)
• $s --> shell name
• $u --> username
• $w --> current working directory (abbreviated)
• $$ --> literal $

If you have superuser privileges, the word ROOT is included with the prompt to remind you to be careful. This is a security feature that cannot be turned off.

LAYOUT1

File panel layout. Format is:

<file_panel_fields>|<info_line_fields>

where fields is a list of fields to be displayed.

LAYOUT2

Alternative file panel layout.

LAYOUT3

Alternative file panel layout.

LAYOUT_ACTIVE

Pick one of the layouts 1 to 3.

KILOBYTE

Select your preferred definition of one kilobyte (megabyte, etc.) The filesize is displayed according to this parameter.

• 1000 - the prefix kilo means thousand
• 1024 - for computer professionals one kilobyte is traditionally 1024 bytes. This is now written as 1 KiB according to the IEC International Standard 60027-2.

TIME_FMT

strftime-style time format string or AUTO for autodetect.

DATE_FMT

strftime-style date format string or AUTO for autodetect.

TIME_DATE

The short format displays time of the day for recent timestamps (i.e. same day or not more than 16 hours ago). Otherwise the date is displayed. The two long formats display both date and time, date first or time first.