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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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change terminal window default location

How do I change the default gnome-terminal location on screen. I checked out the preferences but they only have option to change default size. I also checked out .gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/ but didnt ...
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How to change keyboard speed in the Linux console? [duplicate]

When I press Ctrl + Alt + F1 the desktop environment disappears and a terminal window appears. Pressing Ctrl + Alt + F7 brings me back to DE. This terminal is useful when the DE hangs for some reason ...
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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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1answer
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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. ...
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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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2answers
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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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2answers
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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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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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1answer
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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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Terminal 256 colors don't work through Tmux [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: 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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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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2answers
280 views

How to re-adjust content while resizing gnome-terminal?

Some times when I am compiling a script the parameters are so long that they cover many lines in the terminal. When I resize the terminal in order to read more clearly, the content does not ...
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3answers
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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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4answers
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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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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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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. ...