GNOME Terminal is the standard terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment.
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Why don't Linux terminal emulators support full colors?
I just upgraded my gnome-terminal to use 256 colors, yet I am a bit puzzled on the reason why a terminal emulator can't support the full palette any modern desktop environment provides. I guess ...
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Is it possible to set Gnome Terminal's title to “user@host” for whatever host I'm connected to?
I'd like to set the terminal title to user@host so I can easily tell which machine I'm connected to from the window title. Is there a way to do this from SSH or from GNOME Terminal?
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ESC key causes a small delay in terminal due to its Alt+ behavior
My terminal setup is gnome-terminal + tmux + zsh with vi bindings.
In applications like vim or even in the zsh's command line vi editing mode, I need to frequently hit the ESC key but there is a ...
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Effect of $LANG on terminal
I'm trying to learn how the $LANG variable behaves with gnome-terminal (and its character encoding preference option). I've been using iso8859-1 (latin1) as my main character-set and all my filenames ...
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Interrupt sequence CTRL+C does not work for user
In any terminal operating under GNOME, if I press Ctrl+C, I only see a question mark. Same goes for Ctrl+Z. The output of stty -a | grep intr is:
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ...
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How to clear terminal completely?
When we use clear command or Ctrl+L in terminal, it clears terminal but we can still scroll back to view the last used commands. Is there a way to completely clear the terminal?
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Is there a “Open terminal here” from File Browser?
Something equivalent to Windows' "cmd prompt here", that will open a gnome-terminal on a specific folder?
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How to get gnome-terminal in English?
Is it possible to select a different language for a specific application? On some systems I run Fedora15/Gnome in German, but want to use the Terminal in English including for the simple prompt ...
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Prevent SSH client passing TERM environment variable to server?
I'm currently using Fedora 18 gnome-terminal, then started tmux multiplexer in it. After I connected to a CentOS 5 server via ssh command, I find:
ls result has no color
tmux, screen, hexedit, htop ...
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How to get background color in Emacs?
In Emacs no window mode, the background is automatically the same as the terminal (gnome-terminal). When I look at (frame-parameters) I see that (background-color . "unspecified-bg"). Well, for me, ...
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How to add color themes to Gnome-Terminal's GUI preferences?
I use Gnome-Terminal for a lot of my work, and like separating my windows by color based on the task that I'm doing, so I've set up several profiles using the Preferences GUI.
I found some color ...
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How can I disable terminal resizing
Vim scripts sometimes resize the whole shell (in my case the Taglist plugin).
I don't want this behavior, which is possible with the shell command resize, too.
Is there a way to suppress the whole ...
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Ctrl + c will not kill process
I have looked for answers and so far have found nothing to answer my question. I am currently logging in to my Ubuntu server and upon running a process I can not run any of the interrupts on it. Here ...
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Gnome terminal fails to start
After upgrading to Fedora 18, on certain occasions, gnome-terminal will fail to launch, requiring me to log out of the desktop and log in again. I tried tracing the error and found the following in ...
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indistinguishable active tab in gnome terminal
I am running Gnome 2.30.2 and Gnome Terminal 3.0.1 on my Debian Sid and recently the active tab became almost indistinguishable from other tabs. It is actually the same colour. Changing the themes ...
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Raspberry Pi, serial console, minicom, and gnome-terminal
I'm trying to access my raspberry pi via its serial console on the gpio pins. It's working fine through a USB-3.3v serial dongle. However, there's a problem with long lines and long screens not ...
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How to send all output to a pager by default?
git has a very nice feature for many of its commands: The output on an interactive terminal is passed to a pager by default, in such a way that it only keeps the pager open if there's more than one ...
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Terminal 256 colors don't work through Tmux [duplicate]
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Getting 256 colors to work in tmux
I want to set my terminal to 256 colors. I normally use the Gnome terminal which is shipped by default in Ubuntu but I also downloaded ...
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Why does F10 in gnome-terminal open the right-click menu?
I am running Fedora 17 gnome (shell) 3 and gnome terminal 3.4.1.1.
I am a user of both gnome-terminal and midnight commander. As default gnome-terminal has always used F10 (which I need while using ...
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Why does Ctrl+Arrow make my terminal switch to a strange mode?
When i type Ctrl+Left or Ctrl+Right within Guake or gnome-terminal the last one's behaviour turns to a some kind of non-usual mode: - key acts like arrow up and + like arrow down, v runs Nano, etc. ...
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How to bypass GNOME Terminal when sending keyboard input?
When running an interactive shell application, how can I send it a key (or key combination) which would normally be intercepted by GNOME Terminal? In this particular instance it's the F10 key which is ...
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How to fix GNOME Terminal cursor in awesome?
I'm using awesome 3.4.11 on Ubuntu 12.04, and my default terminal is GNOME Terminal 3.4.1.1. After starting several terminals, it seems the cursor behavior gets disconnected from window focus in some ...
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How do I kill 1 gnome-terminal window?
Why in the world do all my gnome terminals run under 1 process in Ubuntu? This is integrating things that should remain separated! I much prefer xterm's rational mode of running one process per ...
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Theme looks different depending on location in FS?
I am noticing an annoying effect when copying GTK themes and I am unable to explain it. Copying a theme from /usr/share/themes to ~/.local/share/themes results in a new theme that looks different than ...
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xfce: too high gnome-terminal after going out of maximize/full screen
I use debian (wheezy) with xfce 4.8. My laptop screen resolution is 1366x768.
I use a script to open two gnome-terminals:
#!/bin/bash
gnome-terminal --geometry 74x51+0+0 ...
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8-bit input in gnome-terminal
I'm trying to switch from xterm to gnome-terminal but having trouble with alt keys. I have already disabled menu access keys, but I still need 8-bit inputs. In xterm I can set 8-bit inputs in ...
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Configurable tab-bar, or rich-featured terminal emulator
Is there any terminal emulator where the user can choose the position of the tab bar? I want to have the tab bar on the left, with vertically aligned tabs, or configure the tab-bar to be multi-line. I ...
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Ctrl+C does not work in gnome-terminal
On my Linux host, Ctrl+C does not seem to work and I do not know how to proceed to make it work. I am using Ubuntu 10.04 with bash 4.1.5(1), and working in Gnome-terminal.
When I pressed Ctrl+C while ...
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Copy-pasting in gnome-terminal
Can I configure it to allow:
select right-click to copy
right-click or ctrl-v to paste?
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Is there a way to temporarily change the terminal colour?
I use the gnome-terminal and most of my editors with a white on black theme as I find its easier on the eyes. One of my labs requires screenshots of the terminal (with the process) to be submitted ...
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How to create a script, which runs another script in separate terminal window and does not wait?
I wrote the following
#!/bin/bash
cd ~/bin/red5-1.0.0
gnome-terminal --working-directory=. -x red5.sh
red5.sh is the script to run (this is java written media server).
My script above opens new ...
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gnome-terminal overrides Vim color setting
I'm in gnome-terminal on Linux Mint 13. (Mate)
Whatever color scheme I set for the terminal overrides the color scheme i have set for Vim.
How can i stop that from happening?
I have read this: ...
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Set starting directory for gnome-terminal profile
In gnome-terminal if I choose File->"Open Terminal" or "Open Tab" I get a new window in the same directory as the current window. I would like to create a gnome-terminal profile that starts in a ...
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Keyboard shortcut to set gnome-terminal tab title
I like to work in Linux without using the mouse, because of that I would like to know if there is any method to set a keyboard shortcut to set gnome-terminal tab title.
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How do I get rid of the small nub in the bottom right corner of my terminal?
I'm setting up XMonad within Linux Mint, and I've been able to remove the menubar and the scrollbar from my terminal windows, but I can't get rid of the small resizing nub in the bottom right corner. ...
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How do I edit the terminal launch command in Linux Mint?
In Linux Mint (Debian-based) how can I edit what the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+t launches?
For example, I would like to issue gnome-terminal with the --maximize option, and to have it launch tmux instantly.
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How do I get the solarized colour scheme working with gnome-terminal, tmux and vim?
There's a lot of questions around this, but it's because there are so many variables. I had to piece together instructions from many sites before I got this working.
First, I could not easily set up ...
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terminal: non-english characters
I used to be able to copy&paste (or type if I load respective keyboard layout)
any kind of characters (eg. é ö ñ ß و 好) in my console/terminal.
Now I bought a new computer and it does not work ...
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How can I launch gnome-terminal with unique titles for multiple tabs?
I've seen various posts about launching gnome-terminal with multiple tabs and the script below is working for me. That is to say, this script will launch gnome-terminal with various working ...
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tmux set-titles doesn't work?
To start tmux on every shell login, the following was added to the ~/.bashrc (on the server):
if [ $TERM != "screen-256color" ] && [ $TERM != "screen" ]; then
tmux attach || tmux new; ...
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How to fix the shifted function keys in vim in xterm in gnome-terminal?
When I hit the <s-f2> key to execute my nnoremap <s-f2> :set number! mapping Vim opens its "Insert" mode above (O) and types the 1;2Q string. In order to see the entire terminal key code – ...
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How can I create a terminal window with one tab per long-running script that I can individually kill with ctrl-C and restart?
I am working on an application that requires running many long running scripts, some of which I want to restart from time to time. Currently, I am trying to use gnome-terminal to solve this problem, ...
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Home key not working in terminal
I am using GNOME Terminal 2.7.3 and zsh 4.3.9 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
Home and End are not working. Nothing happens and nothing gets displayed when I press them. but they work when I press shift + ...
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Gnome Terminal---hide the tilde files produced by Emacs
Editing text file using Emacs will make Emacs make a companion file for its own purpose.
For example, after first editing a file called test.c, Emacs will leave a file called test.c~ in the same ...
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How do I get gnome to use the same keymap for control as normal?
I'm using a relatively new centos system with Gnome. I have set the keyboard to dvorak, which was really easy and straightforward.
However, for some reason, the control keys are still qwerty. I ...
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Narrow characters
It would be awesome to modify spark to print narrow characters in for example Gnome Terminal. Is this at all possible with Bash / Python?
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GNOME-TERMINAL messed up
If I ssh to a machine and:
man df
I see this:
I'm using GNOME-terminal/Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
So somehow the terminal is messed up, when I want to see the ex.: man pages..
How can I fix this?
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Changing gnome terminal transparency with a command in Ubuntu?
How can I change the transparency of the Terminal windows in Ubuntu with a command?
I already know about the profile method but want a command so that I can quickly swap between transparent and ...
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disabling mouse support in `vim` in a `gnome-terminal` environment
Edit: The problem of an enabled mouse in vim appears to be specific to gnome-terminal (version 3.4.1.1-1; I am using gnome 3 fallback mode). If I run xterm, mouse support in vim is disabled by ...
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Why do only some terminals get a pts
When I try to use write to talk to users logged into an X session results vary depending on which terminal they are using. Gnome terminal can pick up writes, but neither lxterminal nor terminator can. ...
