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I have installed axel and set it to get my firefox downloads through flashgot. It works but the Axel window is not visible - so cannot know when the download starts and ends, its speed etc.

I have recently installed Lubuntu Precise. Before I was using the same but the main installation was Xubuntu and did not have this problem.

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Is a window created with other console downloaders? (wget, aria2).

start any long download and run in terminal ps -C xterm,axel ww.Also you can try to run xterm from terminal xterm. Try the following variants:

  1. 'Alt+Tab' to take out the hidden window. Sometimes it helps. But I don't know if this combo works in lubuntu.
  2. Write down a command line for axel manually in the flashgot options.
  3. Reinstall flashgot.
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  • no window with wget either. `ps -C xterm,axel ww` gives just ` PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND`. alt-tab is real in lubuntu but axel is not there. –  Aug 25 '12 at 21:23
  • could not find a command line that worked, and that was not the question anyway. reinstalling flashgot did not helped –  Aug 25 '12 at 21:32
  • downgrading flashgot version did not help –  Aug 25 '12 at 21:37
  • I meant any flashgot-axel download. What does the command `xterm` give? Possibly you don't have the xterm program or it is broken. – seeline Aug 26 '12 at 05:11
  • yes, that was it. but the other answer is more up to the point so i'll make that the one. upvote and thnk you –  Aug 27 '12 at 09:46
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When you initiate the download the status is not shown in the terminal installed in lubuntu, but on 'xterm'. All you have to do is to install xterm:

sudo apt-get install xterm

'xterm' comes installed with Ubuntu and Xubuntu, that's why it worked fine when you had Xubuntu with lubuntu-desktop installed.

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  • i had lxterm, xfce4-term and gnome terminal installed, i didn't imagine something else was missing, but after installing xterm it is ok –  Aug 27 '12 at 09:47