Questions tagged [tty]
A representation of a device that asynchronously transmits and receives serial data.
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Can't access tty using Ctrl+Alt+F1,F2,F3 etc
Here is what I have tried:
$ xev
KeyRelease event, serial 43, synthetic NO, window 0x4a00001,
root 0x1db, subw 0x0, time 23449801, (434,-234), root:(1305,244),
state 0x1c, keycode 67 (keysym ...
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Why doesn't ctrl+u send SIGKILL? stty says it should
I can interrupt a program by pressing ctrl+c in the shell. Often this kills the program but some programs trap the signal and keep running.
I want to be able to kill such programs more aggressively ...
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Software for serial communications without speed limit
I have a serial to USB device which supports speeds of 8Mbaud and 12Mbaud (based on FT232H IC). I have tested it under Windows using HTerm, works just fine, but I had to resort to HTerm with hacked ...
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Reduce used display size for both X server and console
I have the situation that I have a LCD display that I would like to use but I want to have a "black unused frame" around the displayed content. Is there a kernel setting which controls the used ...
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Lock Virtual Terminals when resuming
Many screen lockers (mine is i3lock) do not block access to other Virtual Terminals. This means that, if I leave a session opened in some VT, then even when the desktop is locked (for example when ...
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Keep getting “standard in must be a tty” [closed]
I have searched on this error and have seen responses about requiretty adn visiblepw. I have verified and set using visudo that
Defaults !requiretty
is set. I have even commented out
Defaults !...
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Why my other Bash instances died when I killed only one
so take this as an example:
$ docker run -it --rm ubuntu
root@7ca4573c1a7a:/# bash
root@7ca4573c1a7a:/# bash
root@7ca4573c1a7a:/# ps axuf
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START ...
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Why do I not get a console with systemd?
I'm trying to get a login prompt on an embedded system using Debian and systemd. The system is connected via a physical serial console to a host PC. If I start the kernel with the cmdline parameters ...
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Is linux kernel implemented tty always render data using UTF-8?
It seems so. I read IUTF8, but the document only said it allows you to handle input as UTF-8 when doing line-editing.
But what about output? If you use a GUI Terminal, it usually allows you to ...
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PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
My remote vm server's password has expired, i cann't change password.
[user@localhost ~]$ ssh root@x.x.x.x
root@x.x.x.x's password:
PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
WARNING: Your password ...
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Linux switches to mysterious Kernel Buffer view everytime a new dmesg arrives
There is a mysterious tty that only reacts to sysrq, not to any other keyboard input.
It started after I engaged SysRQ+F and SysRq+i.
Every 30 seconds or so, Linux switches away from the current tty ...
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Calling stty from a systemd service
I have an expect script that I want to run at startup. Among other things it configures a few serial ports. When I run it via systemd I get:
couldn't read file "/dev/tty": no such device or address
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How to have local echo on with `screen` command?
I tried
screen /dev/ttyUSB1 9600,echo
but I still don't see what I type.
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What is `/dev/console` used for?
From this answer to Linux: Difference between /dev/console , /dev/tty and /dev/tty0
From the
documentation:
/dev/tty Current TTY device
/dev/console System console
/dev/tty0 Current ...
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Is `/dev/tty7` not directly accessible to Ubuntu users?
On Ubuntu, /dev/tty7 is the virtual console for desktop GUI.
Is the only way to access /dev/tty7 to use chvt 7 or Ctrl+Alt+F7?
Besides that, is /dev/tty7 not directly accessible to Ubuntu users, ...
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Is `/etc/tty0` in Ubuntu the file used by `init` and `getty`?
APUE says
The BSD terminal login procedure has not changed much over the past 35 years. The system administrator creates a file, usually /etc/ttys, that has one line per terminal
device. Each ...
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SSH to FreeBSD in UTF-8
I'm trying to ssh to FreeBSD-11.2-Release from my Windows machine using Mintty, but when I set LC_ALL to en_US.UTF-8 and try to enter/paste a non-ASCII character, connection got closed.
I'm using ...
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How to prevent switching to a different tty when Xserver starts?
I am working with tty2 because Linux terminates all processes every 30 seconds and Xserver refuses to start.
How can I keep tty2 in the foreground while the Xserver can go crazy in background?
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Make the TTY console ignore the /dev/input/event3 keyboard
I have a remote control IR USB receiver, but it acts just like a normal keyboard.
I'm reading the input from /dev/input/event3 to handle events. Because of this I need a way for the TTY console to ...
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Laptop without X/GUI: Make screen go blank when lid closes [duplicate]
I have a rather uncommon setup. I use laptops internally as some kind of server. The laptops are stacked in a rack and hence should not create an unnecessary amount of heat. So I'd like to shutdown ...
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What baud rate should I set when using screen tty for bluetooth?
I'm paired up with an Xbox Controller and want to see the output coming from the xbox controller in order to figure out its protocol.
I'm trying to do screen tty.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port 9600 on my ...
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What controls the mapping between Ctrl+Alt+F keys, TTYs and X sessions?
On my CentOS system, Ctrl+Alt+F1 shows the X Windows session known as :0, but on other systems Ctrl+Alt+F7 may do the same thing. What determines how Fn keys are mapped to X sessions and TTYs?
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How to prevent this service from starting at boot
This question is different from the possible candidate since here I am
asking how to remove the service at startup
I am using a Seeed ReSpeaker Core v2.0 board. I would like to use the UART ...
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UART to UART tcp/ip connection
Need to transmit and receive data(TCP/IP) between 2 raspberry through serial tx/rx pins (/ttyAMA0). Best way to do it? Better if this will be done from kernel space. Thanks!
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How do I use jpnevulator to capture and log the serial traffic between an application and hardware serial port?
OK, I've been googling for hours so I obviously have not been able to understand the answers to the various questions that have already been asked about this subject. I am hoping that, by asking the ...
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Audit file modifications over ssh in Linux
I wanted to monitor all the modifications made to file in Linux server
On some research I found audit tool which I have installed and configured using following commands
yum install audit # ...
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Rip-off (an ncurses term) single bottom line out of /dev/tty terminal, is it possible?
Ncurses allows to separate a single line from screen, at level of physical screen (curscr), to devote it to e.g. a title bar, thus also creating a logical screen (stdscr), devoted to application's ...
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Udev rule for disabling usb serial driver [duplicate]
I have an ANT+ USB dongle, and some software I wrote, which uses libusb to communicate with the device.
On recent linux distributions (like Ubuntu 18.04) when I plug in the dongle, in my dmesg I see ...
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Linux ssh connection without pts
I'm connecting to my server using JSCH and I can't find the login user with the following commands :
who
w
I found that it's not connected as pts :
# netstat -tuplena | grep :22
...... 14918/...
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Sending commands to a USB modem: minicom works, but other tools don't
I am communicating (in a way that should be automated) with a (Quectel) USB modem that has the following interfaces available for AT commands: ttyACM0/3/4. On ACM0 everything just works. But on 3 and ...
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Does Linux kernel uses fonts from /usr/share/consolefonts? Is it safe for working kernel?
OS: Ubuntu 18.04. I think it is distribution-independent. The Arch Linux uses the same principle, but do it by another way.
I set the tty's font by editing the /etc/default/console-setup file:
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How to resize TTY console width?
I'm on FreeBSD.
I want to set console width (just console, not ssh or telnet).
I used this command:
stty cols 132
Is this work for just console or worked for all of the connections (console, ssh ...
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Do pty devices have two input buffers?
When terminal devices are in cooked mode, bytes input into terminal is cached and processed by kernel, some bytes are used for line editting and "cosumed", making read return one line a time.
But for ...
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Running ibus with i3 on Ubuntu with multiple users
I have Ubuntu 18.04 running and I installed i3 as my display manager. In this Ubuntu version, it is nevertheless the default to have a GDM login screen. If I login into any account, Ubuntu starts that ...
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Logins and logouts history on linux
I am trying to look for the history of logins and logout on Unix systems: on Linux and OSX.
I found that there's the wtmp file which logs the history of the login and logouts. However, I am still ...
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How to make `tty` work in .bash_profile
I have the following in my ~/.bash_profile in order to try to make GPG work nicely:
export GPG_TTY="`tty`"
But when I open a new shell, I get the following:
$ echo $GPG_TTY
not a tty
However, if ...
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Terminal output not displayed for certain commands
I'm having a weird problem on Ubuntu 18.04 (Desktop) where certain commands don't display output to the terminal when they are run when they definitely should. I can still capture the output of the ...
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Send program's serial output to pseudo-terminal used by serial sniffer such as jpnevulator [duplicate]
I am running an application that communicates through a real serial port e.g. /dev/ttyS0 to a remote device. I can configure this application to use /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1, etc., by passing the ...
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Can I log user input and program output separately for a terminal session?
I wish I could make script work like this:
❯ script --user=call.log --prog=response.log
Script started
❯ echo foo
foo
❯ exit
Script done
❯ cat call.log
echo foo
❯ cat response.log
...
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Why application does not run from SCREEN without delay?
Suppose we need to run application in screen and keep it running when screen exits. The following command does the job, but only if "sleep 1" is appended to it. Why it does not work without "sleep 1"?
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Is this output from “who -a” normal?
This does not look normal to me:
who -a
system boot 2018-09-04 11:59
LOGIN tty1 2018-09-04 11:59 685 id=tty1
run-level 5 2018-09-04 11:59
user + pts/...
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tty1 missing login prompt
I have a clean Debian Stretch installation. It used to be the case that after booting I would end up on tty1 with a login prompt, and after logging X is started. I wanted to automate the logging in (...
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What causes xserver output to go blank when switching to tty console?
I am trying to run two monitors using two graphic cards. The first monitor is used for TTY, the second monitor is used to launch xserver.
When I launch xserver, I still have my other screen showing ...
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Specify tty numbers
As described here on can change the number of tty. However how can I configure it that I have only tty7,...,tty10 (and tty1 to tty6 are disabled)?
I usually use only tty7 upwards because pressing Ctr+...
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RS485: ioctl: ttyS1 not a tty device
I have a board with UART, and an external converter to RS485. It sits at /dev/ttyS1. The converter requires that I put the UART RTS pin to high when sending and to low when receiving. I can achieve ...
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Configure tty to prompt password for specific user
If I switch to a tty, say tty3, it asks me for a username and then for the corresponding password.
How can I achieve, that (only on tty3) it asks me just for a password for a pre-defined user name (...
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Thermal printer only print after send a second output data to tty port
I have a PCI Serial Card installed on a POS computer and I'm trying to install an old thermal printer in it. The test command ls > /dev/ttyS4 works well, but only after the second time I send it. For ...
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What obstacles are there to “move” a program to Tmux?
Suppose there is a program mc ran by bash in terminal iTerm. The /dev/tty is exposed by iTerm, the three file descriptors 0, 1, 2 are connected to that device (I know that Bash opens /dev/tty, while a ...
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How to use external monitor through HDMI without X / graphical environment?
I'm running Arch Linux on a laptop. I usually log in to the TTY console and only startx when I need to. I have an HDMI output and would like to use an external monitor. It works fine with xrandr but ...
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Why is root always logged in from ttyS0 (even after system reboot)? [closed]
I am continuously seeing root in the output of the w command on a virtual machine hosted on the cloud. I have restarted the machine several times and even tried sending CtrlAltDel from the OpenNebula ...
