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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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mouse in midnight commander works only under root
I posted a question a little time ago about mouse that doesn't work with terminal, and then I remarked that mouse works fine, but only under root. Can I change this behavior? It seems i need to ...
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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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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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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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How to active tabs on windows by terminal? wmctrl doesn't have option available
I'd like improve a script of mine that uses firefox to perform tasks. I need activate a window and a tab with a specific name. For example, the window name could be Mozilla Firefox and the tab ...
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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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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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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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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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Emacs ansi-term and term not working well when I ssh into a remote machine
I have the exact same Emacs configuration on a local and remote machine, and when I run M-x ansi-term or M-x term on each of them individually everything works great.
However, if I run any of these ...
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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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Reset background to transparent with tmux?
I recently set up tmux-powerline and noticed that the background color on the status-left, if changed, refuses to go back to default and transparent (if transparency is enabled).
I was able to fix ...
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How do I detect a copy event in Finder?
I am trying to strip formatting from text copied from my Illustrator docs. Someone accurately pointed out to me that running pbpaste | pbcopy via command-line will perform this action on text in the ...
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Can emacs use gpg-agent in a terminal at all?
I understand that there are problems with getting pinentry-curses to work with emacs (see some of the comments on http://emacswiki.org/emacs/EasyPG), and so using emacs in a terminal isn't compatible ...
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Silent boot opensuse without fbsplash
I want to boot my openSUSE 10.3 distro without any boot messages.
I've looked at fbsplash, but it requires patching the kernel, a thing which I cannot do at the moment (not because I don't want it or ...
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Terminal logging via putty on AIX (including smitty)
I use a terminal logging method on my Ubuntu Desktop for the GNOME-terminal (it's
good when I use SSH in GNOME-terminal):
Implementation
As root:
apt-get install bsdutils
As the normal user:
...
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Physical Terminal (DEC VT220) issues with ZSH
I recently purchased a VT220 and all the hardware necessary to hook it to my macbook pro. After several hours of fiddling I got it working with a shell - my only problem is my shell of choice, ZSH, ...
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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 ...
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Huawei modem change auto answer settings
Is there a way to change Huawei modem ATS0=1 command to be permanently set, so that there would not be need to send that command every time when modem is plugged in ?
On each modem-plugin command is ...
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ubuntu:terminal+ssh+vim, resize
Background:
OS:ubuntu 12.04
Display: two, one is laptop, and another is a extended monitor, which is bigger.
Problem:
Open a gnome-terminal in the bigger display, and log on the remote Linux ...
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How to setup an audio/sound output monitor/listener?
I am working with an Arduino and am trying to get it to respond to sound when it is played on my computer. I'm communicating with it over a serial port.
I need to know if there are any audio/sound ...
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how to make terminal utf-8
How can I make my terminal(bash) window uft-8, that it can show utf-8 characters?
my operating system is : ubuntu 12.04 my desktop : gnome-shell
How about native shell(outside of desktop)?
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Error while importing Compiz profile from Terminal
File name : import.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import compizconfig
#The last input on the command line will be the path to save the file to.
savefile=sys.argv[-1]
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How to prevent ELinks from staying in scrollback buffer?
After quitting elinks, the browser page history is lingering in my scrollback buffer, and therefore not returning to whatever was buffered on screen when I launched elinks.
Inside a GNU screen with ...
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grub-mkfont input and output formtas
I have a font that I can set using setfont and rc.conf [CONSOLEFONT]. It is in psf2 format. I would like to use the font in Grub as well. I'm using Grub2. When I run
grub-mkfont -o ~/outfont pc.psf
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Color terminal under USS
I've been using a remote terminal connected to USS under a mainframe for some time. Is there a way to configure this terminal to be colored?
I'm using PuTTY and xterm.
Added: USS stands for UNIX ...
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ffmpeg: error while running with libx264
Main code: ffmpeg -i 2269801.avi -threads 0 -vcodec libx264 -b 900k -acodec libfaac -ar 44100 -ab 96k -ac 2 earthgirlsareeasy1.mp4
[libx264 @ 0x16cdde10]broken ffmpeg default settings detected
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i386 libtool conflicting with x86_64 libtool when installing Handbrake
I've been trying to install Handbrake on centos 5.8 with the help of some different guides. I'm running x86_64, and whenever I try to install packages necessary to build the binary, the arch ends up ...
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Some of the users login screen do not display colors
In my lab I have Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 server.
Users log in through telnet for C programming
Some of the users' login screens display colors, while some other users login screen do not ...
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GUI for mount_afp?
I have installed mount_afp, so I can access my iMac via AFP on my PowerBook G4 running Debian XFCE.
It works in Terminal (screenshot), but is there a GUI for it - like File Manager?
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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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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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touchpad scrolling lost when switching between physical and virtual tty
I have setup touchpad scrolling by running the following script in .xsession
$ cat ~/bin/enablescrolling
# enable two finger scroll
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=1
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Send update ping to ping services in Terminal?
I want to send ping from http://www.mysite.com/rss.xml to http://rpc.pingomatic.com
Is there any way using terminal to achieve this?
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Input freeze when X starts on other terminal
I have a Packard Bell F2011HC-125GE running a Debian Squeeze-based Linux.
After a few days of usage i found the system freezes from time to time.
It's obvious the freezes happen, when X starts while ...
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I can't open the terminal in Cinnamon
I have Linux Mint 13 with Cinnamon installed, but I can't open a terminal using right click nor using CtlrAltt this is just an issue with Cinnamon, why is that happening?
Update
I tried to solve the ...
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Any way to recover list of open terminal tabs/windows before my system went down unexpectedly?
I had been working with maybe 6 tabs open in various directories, when I left for a small vacation. Upon returning, I discover a power outage must have rebooted my machine. Is there any way for me to ...
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unable to open X server
I am trying to generate a screenshot of a firefox window in my terminal, but I keep getting an error:
root@host [~]# DISPLAY=:1 firefox http://www.cnn.com & sleep 5 && DISPLAY=:1 import ...
