A terminal is an environment for text input/output. Inside the terminal, one runs command-line and text mode programs (including shells).
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Can't download Gnome3 for Ubuntu 12.10
How can I install Gnome3 on Ubuntu 12.10?
kanha@kanha-Aspire-5580:~$ sudo apt-get -f install gnome-panel
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... ...
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What is the exact difference between a 'terminal', a 'shell', a 'tty' and a 'console'?
I think these terms almost refer to the same thing, when used loosely:
terminal
shell
tty
console
What exactly do each of these terms refer to?
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Log in with specific shell at terminal login
If I log in to a system over ssh, I can use the default shell with a simple ssh user@host, or specify something like ssh user@host 'bash --norc --noprofile' or ssh user@host ksh.
Is it possible to ...
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What does the tilde (~) mean at the end of a filename? [duplicate]
What is the file with the ~ at the end of the filename for?
$ ls # aliased to add flags
-rwxrwxr-x 1 durrantm 2741 May 16 09:28 strip_out_rspec_prep_cmds.sh~*
drwxrwxr-x 13 durrantm 4096 May 16 ...
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Emacs “jump to class definition” functionality?
I want to jump to a class file "A" from another file "B" which defines objects "A". In eclipse, it is done using F3. Is there a way to achieve this in emacs?
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How to change terminal character encoding
Today I uninstalled the GUI packages on my home CentOS installation. Now, when the machine starts, I get the login prompt. It acts finicky. Sometimes pressing enter just once after answering each ...
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Del key in AIX ksh over PuTTY telnet
At the place where I work we're developing under AIX with ksh and connecting to it via telnet. Most people use ArcTel to connect, while I prefer PuTTY. The only problem I have with PuTTY is that the ...
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vi setting for new window
I'm using terminator (terminal emulator). Whenever I open it, the initial workspace comes with the setting I defined in the config file. But whenever I split the workspace, the new workspace comes ...
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How to split the terminal into more than one “view”?
From vi, if you issue the command :sp, the screen splits into two "views", allowing you to edit more than one file from the same terminal.
Along those same lines, is there a way to have multiple ...
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Xubuntu 12.04: slow login
I'm running Xubuntu 12.04, and after I ran the update, my login started slowing down big time. I've dabbled a little bit with the programs in Settings -> Settings Manager -> Session and Startup, and ...
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“w | tail” chops text at right margin (78 characters)
Summary: w | tail chops rows after 78th column.
When I run the "w" command, it works as expected. However, when I pipe the output to "tail", it chops the output to 78 columns wide (truncates anything ...
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Start a song from a specific time in rhythmbox using command line
I would like to start a song from my terminal, starting from the first min.
i.e.: the command will run the music.mp3 starting from the minute 1.
I am able to run a music with
rhythmbox music.mp3
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Confused about Debian error message from su
On Raspbian, the Debian distro aimed at RPi, I end up getting the following error:
$ sudo su -l root -c /bin/bash
bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device
bash: no ...
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Activating colors in links2 (text mode)
I can't seem to see colors in links2 (text mode), even after playing with my TERM settings. The links2 manpage and README.Debian don't specifically address this issue. Also, command-line options like ...
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Separate STDOUT noise from ncurses
I am trying to run an ncurses GUI application on an ARM board. I am running it using the serial console ttyAMA0 port. But when I run the ncurses program, the other processes running in the background ...
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$PATH in /etc/profile not inherited by user shell
I have this in /etc/profile in Fedora 17:
PATH=$PATH:"/usr/pgsql-9.2/bin"
EDITOR="/usr/bin/emacs -nw"
PSQL_EDITOR="/usr/bin/emacs"
PAGER="/usr/bin/less"
export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME ...
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What is the command or hotkey for stopping a running program in DrJava?
I installed DrJava about a week ago. Its been working fine so far but I ran into an infinite loop and wanted a way to stop the program from running without having to force DrJava to quit. Is there a ...
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Sublime command line open it twice
I just created a symbolic link to sublime:
$ sudo ln -s /opt/SublimeText2/sublime_text /usr/bin/subl
The problem is that it opens the last project and the open I want:
$ subl my-project
or
$ ...
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Finding which filesystem [duplicate]
I have an external hard drive and would like to know what kind of a file system it has.
How do I find that out using the terminal?
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Garbage characters appear on screen when typing
When typing, garbage characters somehow appear on the screen for all the letters that I type. The garbage character is a small rectangle box, and this prevents me from executing any commands on the ...
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How to open konsole in fullscreen mode?
Is there a command or better yet a setting in the config file to allow me to open konsole (the KDE terminal emulator) in fullscreen mode?
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zsh: Echoing every statement?
I have an odd problem with zsh when I switch between shells in a particular way:
Option 1 (works well):
I start a zsh shell. I switch to tcsh with /bin/tcsh, and I switch back to zsh with /bin/zsh
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Can a terminal emulator be as fast as TTY 1-6?
I've been trying various terminal emulators lately, from the built-in gnome-terminal, aterm, xterm, wterm, to rxvt. The test I've been doing is in this order:
Open up a tmux window with 2 panes
The ...
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How to turn off the beep only in bash tab-complete
I find the beep useful for some things, so I only want to turn it off for tab completion (I'm not asking how to completely turn it off, that has already been answered in a different question on ...
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Fixed terminal status lineS instead of shell prompt?
It is common to cram useful information in the Unix shell prompt, but I have too many things I want to keep an eye on to fit it all in one prompt: current Gnu screen window, current directory, current ...
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How to install tar file (jhead) on Mac or Linux machine
I'm new to Linux and tar balls and was wondering how to properly install them on a Mac or Linux machine. I would prefer to know how to install on a mac but I just need some help understanding them. I ...
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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 get rid of special characters in the output of make on centos
I installed centos6.3. When I run gcc, it outputs errors but the function names are surrounded by special characters like this
‘setup_connection’:
This same is repeated with variable names. I ...
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Ctrl-C does not work with pppd non-detached session
I have a Mini2440 ARM Board, and I have put a base Debian 6.0 system on it using multistrap.
I have used tmux to run several processes in defferent windows from /etc/rc.local. I connect to the board ...
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mounting local network folder in Ubuntu
I add a folder in /etc/fstab:
//172.30.12.37/test/ /home/my/test cifs user=afs,pass=123456,auto,exec,umask=002,gid=1000,uid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
Now test link can be seen in ...
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How safe is it to cat an arbitrary file?
Sometimes when I cat a binary file by mistake, my terminal gets garbled up. Nothing a quick reset can't fix, but couldn't an attacker theoretically create a file that, when displayed on a terminal, ...
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What are the characters printed when Alt+Arrow keys are pressed?
When I press AltUp, A printed to terminal screen. Same thing happened when I pressed AltDown but B is printed instead.
Other characters that I realized;
AltLeft = D and AltRight = C
What is the ...
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Why does my terminal open the Mint documentation page automatically?
I'm using Linux Mint, today I have a very strange behavior of my terminal. When I type "space" in the keyboard, it opens automatically the page http://www.linuxmint.com/documentation.php and then I ...
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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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why . and .. are listed when ls -a command executed? [duplicate]
When I execute the ls -a command, all files and folders in that directory listed, as well as . and .. are listed too.
Why is that? Are they a file or folder?
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How to map terminal shortcut from CTRL-M to another combination
I read in another post that you can type CtrlJ or CtrlM instead of the Return key in the terminal, which is great. But what I want to be able to do, is change that to another combination, for example: ...
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tmux status line with blank line on top?
I have a nice tmux status line, but I don't like how the bash/commands run flush along it...that is, if the screen is full, i'm typing things right above the status line.
I'd like a one line break ...
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A script's background process is still alive after closing the terminal
This is more of a process management/signal handling question than a Bash question. It just uses Bash to explain the issue.
I'm running a Bash script in which I run a background process.
This is the ...
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How to disable messages in unix if mesg and chgrp not allowed?
This is one of my questions for my exam ..
We are not supposed to use mesg y/n for this but we should effectively avoid mesgs along with the problem of not being able to change groups.
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Endless data loop from dev/ttyUSB while sending AT commands
I have problem sending AT commands to my USB modem.
At first I tried php-serial class, but when i was reading data, I got endless loop with strange data. Then I tried to debug problem and opened putty ...
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Can't open Gajim
When I try to open Gajim using terminal on gnome I get the following:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "gajim.py", line 106, in <module>
import common.configpaths
File ...
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Getting stdin from a named pipe
What I am trying to do is run python in a terminal window and redirect it's stdin from a named pipe. Then I write to the named pipe in another terminal and have that command execute on python.
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Number of guake's columns at first use
I've a command in my .bashrc that shows me a file, and this file has lines with more than 80 columns, and when I open guake for the first time, these long lines are cut. Example:
# .bashrc
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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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Change the default terminal for all .desktop files?
My htop.desktop launches XTerm, but I want to change the default terminal to xfce4-terminal in all "Terminal=true" .desktop files.
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Open screen in terminal after user login [duplicate]
When a user logins to my Debian server using e.g. Putty, I need to perform the following:
It will automatically execute command screen -r MyWindow, and
the user won't be able to leave the screen ...
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Copy / paste text selections between tmux and the clipboard
I am running the latest version of tmux (from the git repository) and xclip (0.12), and I would like to be able to use Emacs-like keyboard bindings to move around the text in copy-mode, copy (M-w) ...
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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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Poor TTY resolution with nVidia driver
The resolution of the TTY1-6 is poor ~ 640×480
Ubuntu 11.10 | Grub2 | nVidia | NVIDIA GT215 Board
I went through the process on this site and after the edit the GRUB menu appears in the correct ...
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vi hangs when run in /dev/console under LXC
I'm running an Arch Linux container from within lxc. The lxc-start command connects to the internal /dev/console, on which I have agetty running using the following command:
/sbin/agetty --noclear -a ...
