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Are there any linux terminals which can handle all key combinations?
I like to use emacs in terminal mode (-nw), but it seems most (all?) terminals can't handle some key combinations - for example, C-<RET> or C-M-%. I know this is because most terminals emulate a ...
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How does a Linux terminal work?
If you fire up a terminal and call an executable (assuming one thats line oriented for simplicity) you get a reply to the command from the executable. How does this get printed to you (the user) does ...
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How to open and work with terminals using bash script?
I need to open four terminals each will then connect to four different remote pcs and open specific directory locations on those pcs. Each terminal will be opened in different locations on my pc's ...
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Variants of tilda-emulator replacements
Tilda is beautiful! But I really need at least one additional feature except show/hide on hotkey: hotkey to maximize terminal window.
UPD:
A friend of mine showed me the yeahconsole + urxvf and ...
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Get PID of the application running in the active terminal emulator
My end goal is to be able to open a new terminal window (urxvt) directly in the current working directory of the program running in the window currently active.
I'm currently using the shell (Bash), ...
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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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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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