Questions tagged [gnome-terminal]
GNOME Terminal (often titled only "Terminal") is the default terminal emulator included in Ubuntu.
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gnome-terminal installed but not opening
I tried to install the newest version of Python in my Ubuntu laptop. When I finished installing it, I realized that my Terminal and some other apps were gone. They were not among my favorites where I ...
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Invoke a program as a command on any working directory on ubuntu's terminal [duplicate]
I have written a program in C and produced an executable from it. I want to use this program from any pwd. One method is to make its pathname a environment variable using export. But in this method, ...
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All terminals are only black all the time. How to get access again? [closed]
If I load up a terminal in linux mint, it is entirely black, both xfce and guake. I cannot type anything, cannot Ctrl+C, there is no keyboard input that interacts with the terminal in any way.
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NO audio from capture card using ubuntu and unofficial OBS
I have the latest release of ubuntu as of 3/6/24 anyways. I get video and audio from the laptop. however I do not get any audio from the capture card! yes this cap card is confirmed to work with linux ...
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Command line application which remembers/saves tabs?
Are there any Linux terminals available on Ubuntu which remember tabs (like Firefox) and easy to install?
Been using Konsole but it doesn't have this feature.
Really fed-up having to re-open 10/20 ...
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Keyboard shortcut for opening the terminal in the current directory?
I would like to have a keyboard shortcut that opens a terminal in the current directory.
Here is what I already did:
open_terminal_here.sh:
#!/bin/zsh
gnome-terminal --working-directory="$PWD&...
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how to Disable windows key(left+right) on ubuntu23.10?
While working with ubuntu 23.10, I want to disable the functioning of the Windows key from the command or program. How can I achieve it?
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What type of user interface does GNOME Terminal have?
I read here that a terminal emulator is just a wrapper program that runs a (command-line) shell.
So we can type different commands into this shell (which runs inside a terminal application). In ...
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How to fix the terminal
the problem is that commands in the terminal are not executed, at first thought that the problem in the terminal (Gnome), reinstalled, but the problem remains.Interestingly, yesterday everything ...
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How to scroll up/down in terminal with pageUp/pageDown
I prefer to work without a mouse. This means I prefer to use PageUp and PageDown instead of the scroll wheel.
This works fine, except in the gnome terminal. I need to use shift-pageUp/Down there.
I ...
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Ubuntu 23.10 Terminal turned into a text editor
The Terminal suddenly does not accept commands anymore and basically behaves like a text editor.
The last commands that I put in before this happened was just some nvm commands, i.e. nvm alias ...
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Jump to the Open Terminal Window [duplicate]
I've always got a terminal window open in my Ubuntu GNOME Wayland session. I know Ctrl+Alt+T is a keyboard shortcut to open a new terminal window. But how do I create a keyboard shortcut to jump to ...
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Scrolling gnome-terminal output programmatically?
Is there some way to automatically scroll to the beginning of the terminal output from sh script?
I have custom build routine in my development process:
sh script is using inotifywait to detect source ...
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INFO command in linux ubuntu is installed and is giving the following error in the terminal: aborted (core image saved)
I try to use the command, but it always shows this error. I have already reinstalled and installed it and it persists.
Info gnome-shell[2571]: [2565:2594:1222/143805.051407:ERROR:...
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gnome-terminal window doesn't refresh when maximized on ubuntu 22.04 (X11)
Sometimes when I maximize the gnome-terminal window it stops refreshing. The content inside the terminal stops updating, while the terminal itself continues to work.
However, if I resize the window to ...
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How do I set terminal ctrl+c (interrupt) to super+c
How do I set ctrl+c (interrupt) to super+c in terminal?
Any other key combination for sending the interrupt is unacceptable.
Modifying the behavior of ctrl & super outside of the context of ...
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Terminal: I can't type anything
I am on Ubuntu 22.04 and I was trying to download updates but my machine glitched, I couldn't do anything, waited for a few minutes, and then had to force off the machine by holding down the power ...
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Can't I scroll in the terminal up? Terminal shows only 24 rows? The scrollbar on the right fills the entire vertical height of the window?
Based on:
Terminal output scrolling is gone (Headless 11.10 Server, Upgraded from 10.10)
and
https://superuser.com/questions/1331658/why-cant-i-scroll-in-the-terminal
and my own dire situation right ...
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Onscreen-Keyboard Layout for Gnome Terminal always shows up with the english layout
I'm using Ubuntu 23.04 with a Dell Precision 7390 2in1. That means I am partly working in kind-of tablet mode using the onscreen keyboard.
If I open a gnome terminal there the keyboard layout always ...
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How to modify copy/paste on Ubuntu-terminal to Windows-WSL-like?
On the one hand, I like the way that WSL+Bash handles copy/paste. Ctrl+C only copies when something is selected. If nothing is selected then Ctrl+C behaves as usual and sends a SIGINT.
On the other ...
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gnome-terminal doesnt open [duplicate]
I decided to update python from 3.10.? to 3.12.0 (downloaded and compiled), after that i noticed my terminal doesn't start. Tried several solutions but no luck, i run terminal commands in visual ...
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Alt+F2 doesn't run scripts from a folder added to PATH, but terminal does run it
I used to run scripts using Alt+F2 in Ubuntu 18.04, but they don't run in Ubuntu 22.04. However, they run properly if I run them from the terminal which uses zsh.
To modify the PATH variable I opened ...
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Cannot control terminal after installing Node
I can no longer control my Ubuntu 22.04 terminal. The terminal asks me to install ng-common and then I can't use the terminal. This is how my terminal currently looks like:
I was trying to install ...
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Terminal - packages have been kept back. How to install them? [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu 22.04. When I try to upgrade on Terminal. I get the message that some packages have been kept back.
I have attempted to use:
" sudo apt-get --with-new-pkgs upgrade "
and
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gnome-terminal won't open after python upgrade [duplicate]
Cause:
I did the mistake of upgrading my system's (Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS) python version from 3.10 to 3.12.
Issue:
Since then, my terminal wouldn't open.
And when opening a virtual terminal (CTRL+ALT+F3) ...
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How to change gnome-terminal scrollback lines from command line
Using Ubuntu 22.04. I want to change gnome-terminal scrollback lines from the command line.
I know it's possible to do it from Terminal -> Settings (the hamburger button) -> Preference -> ...
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terminal lauch but doesn't finish loading
I am unsure if I am wording this correctly, but when I try to open the terminal, it opens, but It never finishes loading (So I can't type anything in there)it stays in the below state.
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How can I differentiate my terminals
I am using multiple terminals for different task. But it's hard to remember which terminal I use for a specific task. I guess I could set the title, but how and is there something else I can do to ...
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How to read and write inside mounted vendor.img
I need help with editing vendor.img.
I had a problem where if I mounted vendor.img, it's just read-only, I tried to edit permission via file manager's properties tab, but that don't work. Is there any ...
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Why is Ubuntu 22 always launching apps with gnome-terminal or xterm, even if an alternative is configured?
I want to switch to a new editor - LunarVim - and also to a new terminal that supports font ligatures - Kitty. Both installed globally on my system. I enabled it as the default terminal application ...
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How to redefine custom shortcut to open Terminal once Terminator was installed?
For Ubuntu Desktop 22.04, with the ctrl + alt + t shortcut is opened the default terminal available.
Now Terminator was installed and with the same shorcut now Terminator is opened instead. I did do a ...
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Colours in terminal [duplicate]
I have recently started using Ubuntu and the terminal by default very helpfully had different colours for the directory I was in and other things. I don't know what I did and now the colour of ...
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Custom luminous letters in terminal?
I saw this screenshot in my university book, is it possible to make something similar to this in gnome terminal?
I'm not sure it's screenshot and not a photo though, but it seems more like screenshot ...
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Can't scroll up in terminal version of Ubuntu
I am using Ubuntu 22.04, command line version.
I am unable to use the standard commands to see prior terminal output(cntrl, scroll up/down) or have the ability to enter into highlight mode.
No idea ...
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Unable to access gnome terminal on ubuntu 22.04 LTS server with ubuntu-desktop installed
Hi I have setup tigervncserver by following https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/ubuntu-desktop-aws#3-configuring-the-vnc-server on Ubuntu server running one AWS ec2 metal instance, but i have trouble running ...
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I installed Ubuntu 20.04 and it comes without apps
Recently, I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my Raspberry Pi. I had some trouble accessing the desktop and had to install a screen manager, and when I finally managed to turn it on, there weren’t any apps! ...
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How to view terminal output from script initiated from .desktop custom application launcher
I created a basic ls.sh script with the following body:
#!/bin/bash -x
ls
and I was sure to allow execute permissions chmod +x ls.sh. I tested ls.sh in my terminal and it works fine. I went ahead and ...
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When I open Ubuntu terminal "~~~~" and "^[[2~^[[2~^[[2~" characters are coming nonstop . How can I get ride of this?
While using the Terminal exclusively, I frequently encounter the occurrence of ~~~~~~~~~~ and ^[[2~^[[2~^[[2~ characters appearing randomly. This happens even when I am not actively pressing any keys ...
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Ubuntu 22.04: gnome-terminal keeps crashing during high/enduring disk activity
I'm using vanilla Ubuntu 22.04, GNOME.
gnome-terminal keeps crashing. It seems to be associated with any high-bandwidth, disk-intensive activity. I'm creating a tar file of considerable size (4GB) and ...
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Change wallpaper from command line
I am currently in a learning program. We are asked to download a specific image and then use it as wallpaper, doing so form the command line. The directions given yields nothing:
First we have to ...
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How to change symbol from spaceship theme on .zshrc?
I can't change the symbol "right arrow" in the terminal with the theme spaceship. Below has an image from the terminal:
However my file .zshrc includes the lines for changing the symbol. ...
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gnome-terminal: Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Could not connect: No such file or directory
If I run
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
then I suddenly can't run gnome-terminal. I get the error
Error constructing proxy for
org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Could not connect: No
such ...
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Shell color theme vs Terminal theme
Could someone explain how terminal and shell work in terms of theming? Shell frameworks, like oh my zsh, allow you to change color theme. However, terminal emulators, like Blackbox, also allow you to ...
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Ubuntu 22.04: Gnome terminal: ctrl + {pgup, pgdown} does not work (and it's sooo annoying)
I have a problem that looks very similar to the one described here: Ctrl+PgUp on numeric keypad not working
On my Dell Precision 3560 running Ubuntu 22.04 I have a problem where I cannot "scroll&...
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Skip a download in terminal
I am downloading four files (8gb each), I already have 2nd files and i don't want to download it again. How can i just skip it. I don't want to cancel the download as it will cancel the 3rd and 4th ...
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Horizontally aligned terminal output
I have a program that has the following outputs:
Pack 1:
TimeStamp : 1001302
Data : [1 21 343 2 34 ]
Found : Yes
Pack 2:
TimeStamp : 1001303
Data : [1 21 344 2 35 ]
Found : Yes
Pack 3: ...
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gnome terminal - How to replace a text selection in currently typed command?
Default behavior is to append text in the currently typed command:
In this case I would like to see mkdir music.
Is there an extension that would allow such behavior?
Is there another terminal ...
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How to start a background process in gnome-terminal automatically at the start
I want to start a background process (tail [a log file]) in each gnome-terminal automatically when the terminal is created.
I've tried
gnome-terminal -e "tail -f /var/log/syslog &"
which ...
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How to install Japanese font for cmatrix
I want to use Japanese font in cmatrix, using the command
cmatrix -c
but the only thing I can see is a blank screen, so the characters aren't displayed correctly. How to install Japanese font?
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Terminal (any one) losing lines after scrolling back on Ubuntu 22.04
I am having some troubles with Ubuntu 22.04 on an Acer Nitro 5 core i7, specially one annoying is that I cannot have a reliable scroll back listing because the terminal simply loses some lines, ...