Questions tagged [console]
The system console is an interface used by human to control the computer. Basically, it consists of a keyboard and a monitor that can provide a text user interface.
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Trouble with Pacman and Mirrorlist in Arch Linux ARM on Zipit Z2
I am the proud owner of a Zipit Z2, and I recently swapped out Z2Ubuntu for Arch Linux ARM. Everything looks good, except I cannot use Pacman.
Here's my /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
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How to know what is the current tab - number or position - for any Window Terminal?
For Ubuntu and Fedora if is opened a Window Terminal through ctrl + alt + t then is possible open a new tab through shift + ctrl + t. Suppose exists a Window Terminal with 5 tabs. If possible go to ...
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minicom on /dev/tty# - Ctl-A Z doesn't appear to work?
I have an old laptop (Dell Latitude D610) that I want to use as a serial terminal for some systems that require that, since this machine has a built-in RS-232 port. I have installed Debian 12 and ...
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What is the console setting for kernel early_printk in Linux?
I am working on an embedded Linux (kernel-5.10.24), and I enabled the early_printk in kernel configuration to help my debugging kernel.
Normally, the kernel command line has set console=ttyS0,115200 .....
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How do I keep the screen on a console-only Raspberry Pi?
Buildroot for RPi3 B+ without X server (console only). Monitor connected on HDMI.
I want to keep the monitor on.
After 10 minutes (if I'm not wrong) of no keyboard activity the screen turns off.
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Linux Kernel (first) boot hangs/stalls - never prompts for login
I have built a custom kernel using the mainline source, latest version and this config.
I've created an image of Bullseye as suggester here
And then I ran it in QEMU (setting the relative environment ...
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What is the maximum number of glyphs that a font of a TTY console can have? [duplicate]
I want to my TTY console can show all Unicode UTF-8 characters.
First, I checked my locale to verify if it was set to UTF-8 mode:
>> Locale
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="es_ES.UTF-8"
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Console output not aligned on 4k screen
After a fresh Ubuntu Server install, the console (no GUI) output is not aligned to the left side of my 4k screen. Instead, each line starts at a third of the screen width away from the right side, and ...
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Running tmux at startup on a different console (monitor)
Aloha !
I have a headless server connected to a monitor. The server has no graphical environment installed, nor has any keyboard or mice attached to it. I am able to login via SSH.
I would like to ...
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Splash screen is fine, but from the grub boot loader on, the video has obviously got wrong settings: what to do?
I should but don't really know what went wrong, but I strongly suspect the system was first installed on different hardware and then the disk moved over to this production server. ...The "console&...
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Redhat 8 console sign in desktop display options - wayland X11 classic
In doing an installation of rhel-server-8.8_x86-64.iso on a Dell optiplex 7010 pc and my home pc (asrock) I see what is in the above pic. On a Dell r640/740 server I only see the X11 choices, I do ...
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Using netconsole to log netinstall image boot
I am trying to log kernel boot messages through the ethernet interface over the local network to another device using netconsole following this document: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/...
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Unloading KMS driver / Replacing NVIDIA Linux drivers without rebooting
In the past you could trivially replace NVIDIA proprietary drivers on the fly after switching to the text console, killing X.org and unloading (rmmod) the appropriate NVIDIA modules, and installing ...
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running VSP as SSH command on HP ilo5 hung
I am trying to do a little automation to VSP on HP ilo5. While I can successfully SSH into the ilo and I can run vsp from hpiLO-> prompt I cannot run it directly from remote host as part of SSH ...
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How were the consoles connected to the mainframe?
From this post:
A console is generally a terminal in the physical sense that is by some definition the primary terminal directly connected to a machine.
A console must be a piece of hardware ...
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Python 3 BBS lister
I have the following script. Which works perfectly fine with telnet (or even ztelnet), the problem is that it does not allow me to answer all of the questions with another term. Other than telnet or ...
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The symbol | is not written in the linux console
Installed Linux without GUI, only console. I'm trying to enter a character | from the USB keyboard by pressing the corresponding button next to Enter. Without Shift it prints #, with Shift it prints ~....
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Terminal syscalls in Assembly
I would like to write a chess engine for Linux.
It will be in pure X64 Assembly language without any C/C++ or any other high level languages external libraries.
It will run in full screen text/console/...
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Accessing two linux systems using one serial console port one at a time using splitter
I have two linux devices with serial console port. I have only one serial port on terminal server and i want to access both these devices one at a time basis. Can i hub/ splitter do the task if i ...
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how to disable fbcon?
my boot have several systems fighting for fb control. kms, amdgpu, systemd-boot, efi, fbcon...
it's a mess. my resolution and font keeps changing during boot. Not just changing, but changing back and ...
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Programatically start a background process under linux
Is it possible to start a Linux process in background without using &, nohup, tmux, disown, CTRL-Z + bg, what-so-ever.
In another word, what I am looking for is something like the FreeConsole ...
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Where can I get the terminal version of Ubuntu
Where can I get the terminal version of Ubuntu with only basic stuff like sudo and apt. I prefer to customize it with CUBIC.
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ircII ansi escape sequences
REHASH from my original question.
I'm trying to get VT100/ANSI escape codes working in an irc client (ircII).
What facilitates this, is the screen.scr file.
The apparent problem, is that I cannot get ...
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In accessing console via serial connection, is there some "serial daemon" listening in the server?
When we use SSH, we should have an SSH client on the client computer and there should be an SSH server running on the remote computer. In Linux for example, the SSH daemon, sshd, should be running in ...
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Capture a jpeg image / image stream from a console program?
I'm running a headless Raspberry Pi, and would like to convert the console/terminal output to a single jpeg or video stream.
For example: capture the output of pbytop every few seconds and stream it ...
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How to "enable" True Color Support and Nerd Fonts in Arch Linux Console
From now on, every time I say "console" I refer to the console you must use in Arch Linux if a desktop environment is not yet installed.
I want to "enable" True Color Support in ...
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I'm typing a password on a console prompt, and do typo errors: how to reset from scratch what I'm typing? [duplicate]
password:
and here, after few characters, I understand that I've done a lot of typing errors.
But I don't know how to reset what I'm typing in this input field from scratch, to restart again, except ...
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Linux: re-enable display port after disabling by kernel command video=DP-1:d
Is it possible to re-enable an display that was disabled by kernel option video=DP-1:d ?
Background: I have a laptop (ux8402) that has two monitors by design and I do not want a second display on ...
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Let agetty (or other) switch off the laptop screen after a short while on non-UI linux
Using an older laptop as a small server with no graphical UI/login, it has an agetty running on the system console, i.e. the laptop screen.
Since I login almost always via network, there is no point ...
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Why is the sun12x22 font not included in Debian by default?
When setting the console font in Debian using dpkg-reconfigure console-setup there is no option to select the Sun console font. The font is available on most other Linux distributions, but the Debian ...
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ninja IRC client
I'm having a problem when compiling ninja IRC client. (http://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/5b/ninja-1.5.9pre14.tar.gz)
It compiles fine, but segfaults upon executing. When strace'ing the ...
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How do interactive CLIs work?
How do command-line applications like Vim work? Specifically, how do they take control of the terminal in the manner they do? Also, for future reference, is there a specific term for applications that ...
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Why do some applications started using bash "bind -x" hang the terminal?
I have these bindings in .bashrc:
bind -x '"\C-f":"vim -c MRU"'
bind -x '"\C-g":"lazygit"'
and after starting vim using Ctrl-F and exiting it, it leaves the ...
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What exactly is the output in my terminal when I try to use Alt+Delete to remove text?
Alt+Backspace works in terminals which often leads to me mistakenly trying Alt+Delete which then adds a ~. What exactly is happening there?
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How do I get the user@os to show up in front of commands in the shell
Currently my shell shows this:
It used to show up like user@distro ~$. How do I get that user@distro to show up in the terminal? I'm using Konsole as my terminal.
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Can't `beep` without an active tty
I am having this issue, I can't beep the Debian10 headless box without a local user logging on a real TTY (ok, meat to be a headless box, though needs a monitor for mentioned test). By beep, I mean ...
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Questions about tty
Why are there so many ttys? Are multiple tty necessary?
Why are multiple things spread in different ttys? For eg i have the runit logs on tty1, wm on tty7, and a blinking white cursor on the corner of ...
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How to change map of scancode to keycode for wireless keyboard?
I have a wireless Logitech mouse and keyboard combo and I want to remap capslock to leftctrl and vice versa for the Linux console as well as the X terminal so I want to use the instructions here.
The ...
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How to detect if I'm connected on the console
I would like to find a reliable way to detect if I'm connected on the console before doing network maintenance.
So far I found this :
$ tty | grep /dev/tty
/dev/tty2 # Connected on the console
$ ssh ...
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grep the console (terminal) content, after it has been displayed. (not the same as greping stdout)
I've run plenty of commands on my terminal, their results are displayed on it.
It's time I'm willing to search among what is written, without re-running the commands that produced these results.
Only ...
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How can I load a console after killing xserver?
I'm attempting to build a kiosk, and using Xorg to load Chromium in kiosk mode (Raspberry OS). I am a web developer, but a bit of a novice with this level of linux work.
To future proof this, I want ...
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X follows keyboard layout toggle but console does not, crazily
Two systems behave the same weird way, Xubuntu 20.04 and Debian 11 testing.
I've set the following in /etc/default/keyboard:
XKBOPTIONS="compose:caps,grp:win_space_toggle"
This works under ...
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when I use tab on rsync and remote pc magical characters happear in display
Simple.
I have the file "longname.server" on remote pc, I want to copy on my pc, but..I don't remind the name because is long and I use tab completion.
\rsync -avP remote:^[\\\[0\\\;...
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How to scroll back in Linux virtual consoles (2022)? [duplicate]
I'm only talking about the generic Linux virtual console, not terminal emulators such as GNOME Terminal or remote login interfaces like PuTTY.
It seems that some methods have been deprecated in newer ...
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Am I being hacked? can any one read this copy/paste netstat -ano?
i have an hp elitebook laptop with Linux mint and I have opened Firefox browser with four tabs: an empty tab and three from the streaming website solarmovie.zone
Even though no streaming is running ...
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Status bar for Linux console?
I spend quite a bit of time in the Linux console. I like the no-distractions interface, but I would really appreciate a way to show at least the battery level, date, and time, and ideally also CPU/RAM ...
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Font change during boot sequence
When you boot the Linux kernel, it spews fouth a huge wall of text, which scrolls faster than any human could ever read. If you watch closely, at some point during the boot sequence, the font the text ...
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How can I restore the Linux console font back to the kernel built-in font?
My Linux kernel, by default, uses the big 16x32 Terminus font that is built into the kernel (with CONFIG_FONT_TER16X32) for the framebuffer console.
I just installed the "kbd" package and ...
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SSH commands - cleared console without any error/message
I have Kubuntu 22.04 and I have some troubles with SSH output in a console. Every SSH command clears console. I even can't check a version of SSH.
For instance, this is what I type:
admin@machine:~$...
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Text boot without text console: agetty problem in Fedora 36
I have always used text+console boot without graphic interface. This includes the login, that is also text only since I do some sync stuff at login time, specifically on tty1 where I have an autologin ...
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