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How can I hook on to one terminal's output from another terminal?
I need to hook onto output of currently running terminal (tty1) from virtual terminal and capture it (running X server).
I'm pretty sure such a thing is possible by simpler means than debugging ...
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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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PseudoTerminal concept in Linux [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the exact difference between a ‘terminal’, a ‘shell’, a ‘tty’ and a ‘console’?
This question follows directly from another question of mine in this great forum. ...
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How Can Terminal Emulators Kill Their Children After Recieving a SIGKILL?
From what I understand, SIGKILL cannot be caught. This would imply that a process does not have time to kill it's children before the OS destroys it. This can be demonstrated with a shell script.
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Solarized colors in st (simple terminal)
I want to use st with solarized colors like I can with urxvt (of course this is done via .Xresources, in st the colors are defined in a header file). I've tried to put the colors in st's config file ...
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How can I set the position that terminal opens at?
I'd like Terminal to open near the bottom of my screen. Is there a way to set the default size and position?
I'm using Linux Mint 13, Cinnamon.
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Effect of $LANG on terminal
I'm trying to learn how the $LANG variable behaves with gnome-terminal (and its character encoding preference option). I've been using iso8859-1 (latin1) as my main character-set and all my filenames ...
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export PATH only once per login in zsh
I need to alter my PATH variable so I put export PATH=$PATH:somedir in my $HOME/.profile which is sourced by my $HOME/.zshrc.
This works, yet whenever I open a new terminal (urxvt in X11), .zshrc ...
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How to make LXTerminals open maximized in Lubuntu 11.04?
I have Lubuntu 11.04, I start my terminal sessions with a shortcut.
The annoying thing is that the terminal windows are never maximized when I launch them, so every time I launch a terminal I must ...
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Is there a xterm equivalent that is optimized for use over VNC?
tl;dr Is there a terminal emulator that uses rectangular copies for scrolling?
I'm doing a lot over work over the internet just now (hacking a program on my employer's cluster that can't be ...
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Telnet send Ctrl-C
I use telnet to connect to a terminal server, which proxies the traffic to a RS-232 port.
Unfortunately when using some of the devices it is not possible to send the ctrl-C character (0x03). Instead ...
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Run tmux always when I open terminal
I usually open lxterminal with bash shell where I usually type tmux command first.
I'd like to have launched tmux command automatically, so I tried to add this command to ~/.bash_profile or to ...
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Can I write control characters to someone else's terminal?
A lot of people log into the same AIX 6.1 server as I do with a terminal emulator that automatically interprets and runs code encapsulated by certain control characters as VBA script instead of ...
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console space eaten up by file contents
see the example below to understand my problem ; consider my console prompt look like this
user@server $ ls
"I opened a file temp"
user@server $ vi temp
"temp will open in the same window, when I ...
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What is a good X terminal not from a major window environment?
I'm looking for a terminal program I can use with a minimal fluxbox environment I am setting up.
Ideally, I am looking for a terminal program that supports tabs and true transparency.
So far it ...
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Terminal Character Encoding Issue BitchX
I ran BitchX on three different Linux OS-es because I got this weird � (question mark) on two of them (Linux OpenSUSE 11.4 and BackTrack 5 R1) using yakuake/konsole (OpenSUSE) and terminator/tilda (BT ...
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What is the difference between a Console, Shell, Terminal, Terminal emulator, Terminal multiplexer, and a Window manager?
For example. What is the difference between a default 'interface/console' of FreeBSD/archlinux, vs Terminal, vs Terminal emulator like Xterm, vs Terminal multiplexer like tmux, vs Window manager like ...
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Preventing LyX from getting a SIGHUP and closing when the terminal window is closed
I have written a Ruby script to manage my LyX documents. The script has a short CLI interaction with the user(=me), and then it decides the name of the file to open, and opens it via a lyx shell ...
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terminal emulator which auto closes after execution but stays open if there was an error during execution
I have a automatic build script it uses a makefile which starts different ant scripts depending on the target
I start it using xterm (I have a shortcut on the desktop)
It works fine but if I want ...
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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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is it possible to send a control sequence to a terminal emulator using the keyboard
If you type echo -e '\eZ' and hit return in a shell running in an xterm, you'll see that the terminal emulator prints an obscure code 1;2c. This seems to indicate that xterm interprets the VT100 ...
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In Bash, why is PROMPT_COMMAND set to something invisible?
On RHEL6 and CentOS 6, /etc/bashrc sets PROMPT_COMMAND here:
case $TERM in
xterm*)
if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm ]; then
PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm
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sv_SE.UTF-8 Problems with Bash and VIM in iTerm2
Two specific issues, despite me running iconv -f iso-8859-15 on my old files when converting from sv_SE.iso8859-15 to sv_SE.utf-8 I still get distorted characters. And I believe it's because of Vim ...
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Looking for X terminal with correct window resize handling
Is there any X terminal program, which reflows the content when I'm resizing the window? Gnome-terminal and Sakura does it well halfway: when I'm shrinking the window and re-expanding it, the stuff ...
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Changing terminal emulators
I have ssh access to a remote machine. In this machine if I run echo $TERM I get xterm.
If I want to change my terminal emulator to some other emulator (assuming that it's installed on the remote ...
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Checking how many colors my terminal emulator supports
Is there a reliable way to check how many colors my terminal emulator supports?
If echo $TERM prints xterm, does that unequivocally tell me how many colors my terminal emulator supports? How could I ...
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Force telnet / ssh to use crtl-H for backspace
I have some devices connected to a Cisco serial term server; many work fine when I telnet directly to the port on the Cisco. However, I have a few stubborn devices that will not use Backspace as it ...
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Terminator: Shortcuts for Prev and Next?
In terminator, the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+F opens up a small bar at the bottom of the window to let the user search a text string within the terminal scrollback.
Are there any keyboard ...
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Different Title formats for different Terminal apps?
I use a script which either activates an already running window of a program, or starts that program if it is not running. It uses different shortcut-keys; one for each of my most used apps — it ...
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What is making my cursor 'randomly' disappear when using gnome-teminal?
It happens often that my cursor on gnome-terminal disappears, forcing me to work on a new tab/window. It seems like a random occurrence. Does anyone else experience this? What about other X terminal ...
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Is there a (light-weight) replacement for `rxvt-unicode`?
I am currently using rxvt-unicode as a terminal emulator. Since I also like the configurability of terminal emulators from GNOME and KDE, I wonder whether there is some kind of replacement for ...
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Is there a terminal app that allows filenames to be clickable?
Is there a terminal emulator (extension or app) that does link resolution for local paths?
In particular when I see things like:
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