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How to copy/paste between a console and an X session?
The "best" way to achieve that sort of thing is almost probably opinion based.
The way I prefer uses the backlog of the native terminal.
Knowing that the backlog of tty[N] can be accessed ...
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How to copy/paste between a console and an X session?
You can use the xsel to set the clipboard in X, and you can set the DISPLAY variable to tell it which X to connect to. As long as you are using the same user account, programs started from a terminal ...
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How to copy/paste between a console and an X session?
Another thing you can do is use screen. It creates a virtual terminal that can be detached from any tty/pty and reattached to another terminal.
So, for your use-case, it would be start the screen ...
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How to copy/paste between a console and an X session?
A good alternative is to install bsdutils and use script
sudo apt install bsdutils
and run
$ script
Script started, file is typescript
$ type commands
get output
...
$ exit
Afterwards you can read ...
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Why do X applications show a question mark as TTY in ps's result?
ps will display a question mark for any thread not immediately attached to a tty. (a terminal from which the process can be controlled)
That is of course the case for kernel threads and misc other ...
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Echoing to $(tty) in a backgrounded process
Let's take your first command, and run it in a temporary directory:
mkdir eg1 # Create temporary directory
cd eg1 # ...and change to it
ls # No output (obviously, no files)
bash -c ...
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Why do X applications show a question mark as TTY in ps's result?
There are two parts to this question.
The first, why does ps show "?" is reasonably simple. The procps library looks at the 7th field on the process' stat file and tries to parse that into a ...
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True color support in TTY
The Linux console supports ECMA-48 SGR codes, including 24-bit RGB colour specifiers:
for (( i = 0; i < 256; i++ )); do
printf '\e[38;2;0;0;%dma\e[0m' "$i"
done
printf '\n'
However ...
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How to prevent this service from starting at boot
0. about serial-getty@ttyS0.service
$ sudo systemctl status serial-getty@ttyS0.service
● serial-getty@ttyS0.service - Serial Getty on ttyS0
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/serial-getty@....
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