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How do I put a gnome-terminal's left border on the left side of screen, using a shell command?
I'm making a custom command that launches gnome-terminal as a sort of overlay window near the bottom of the screen, similar to the Tilda terminal. In order to do this, I'm using gnome-terminal's ...
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Why does the “d” key minimizes and restores the terminal?
I have a remote system on which I defined two accounts - an administrator and a standard user. The machine was fallbacked from Unity to GNOME. I use vnc4server to remotely connect to the system, and ...
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Why does launching gnome-terminal un-hide other applications? [closed]
If I Alt+TAB my way to the desktop, launching gnome-terminal un-hides last used application in addition to launching itself. Is there any way of avoiding this? I have a keyboard shortcut which brings ...
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Gnome-terminal doesn't refresh
Gnome-terminal works just fine when I am running Unity, but when I run Gnome shell,
terminals don't work properly and have to be constantly refreshed.
This is particularly annoying when using "vi" to ...
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Command not found when trying to set a format for the time command
I am trying to get the time it takes to run a command, with the output in a specific format:
time -f "%E" ls -l
This is similar to the example in the man page (and on the online man page). However ...
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Single instance of the GNOME Terminal?
I'd like to know or it is possible to set up the GNOME Terminal in a way that when I open up the terminal and there is already an instance open it'll show that instance and not open up a brand new ...
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Setting nautilus-open-terminal to launch Terminator rather than gnome-terminal
The nautilus-open-terminal package adds a menu/right-click option to open a terminal in the current directory.
I want to change this from opening gnome-terminal to opening terminator. There is some ...
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Gnome-terminal scrolling behavior not affected by change in GTK3 source code [closed]
I needed to change the mouse wheel scroll rate in GTK applications. I downloaded and modified GTK3 source code. I recompiled it. It did the trick for gedit and nautilus. But did not do it for ...
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gnome-terminal 'new tab' + keyboard shortcut issue [closed]
It seems as if any time I attempt to assign a keyboard shortcut to gnome-terminal's 'new tab' command it works intermittently. Understandably the Super+t (which is my default) gets intercepted by ...
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How to stop the terminal from wrapping lines
Is there a way to tell the terminal not to wrap long lines. I wish to see a line in the same space without wrapping to the next one. I do not care if I can not see the end of the line just as long as ...
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The GNOME Terminal is very slow in GNOME 3
When using the GNOME Terminal, if I try to create a new tab, or use "C+tab" to cycle to a new one, the terminal will take up to five full seconds to change. This seems to occur whether using ZSH or ...
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unchecking show menubar by default in new terminals won't save
I am unchecking "Show menubar by default in new terminals" in gnome-terminal so that I can use Alt+f and Alt+b to move back and forth the text without raising the menu, but it won't save. Once I have ...
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How to assign a Vim as the default program for a file type and run it in maximized terminal?
I want to assign a terminal based program as a default program in Gnome Shell 3.2. I am running Ubuntu 11.10.
More specifically, I want my .txt files to open in vim with maximized Gnome Terminal.
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gnome-terminal keeps the menubar even when the profile is configured to hide it
I am running gnome classic on 11.10 and even though I have configured the gnome-terminal profile to hide the menu bar it shows it.
Even when I open the gnome-terminal --hide-menubar it shows the menu ...
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How can i access a tty from the terminal
How can I access a tty (eg tty1) from the gnome-terminal?. Can I set up a profile which does that?
NOTE : I know the switch using Ctrl+Alt+F"x"
