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Using QQ: How can I make Byobu the default terminal [duplicate]

I really like the Byobu terminal better than the default Gnome terminal that is installed with Ubuntu. How can I make Byobu the default terminal - for example, when I hit control/alt-t I'd like to ...
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How to open terminal inside a folder in Nautilus, so that the folder is the current location?

In Dolphin with Shift+F4 Terminal is opened from current location in Dolphin. Is there any similar functionality in Nautilus?
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How can I color my terminals in a random background and random text or highlight them by tab colour?

I have my terminal day and night with 50 to 100 tabs open. Each tabs has remote servers using SSH connected for maintaining. Sometimes i get confused in which system i am connected and did lot of ...
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I cannot mount my USB flash drive although I can see it with lsusb

library4@maths1-3000-N200:~$ lsusb Bus 002 Device 002: ID 090c:1000 Silicon Motion, Inc. - Taiwan (formerly Feiya Technology Corp.) 64MB QDI U2 DISK Bus 004 Device 002: ID 08ff:2580 AuthenTec, Inc. ...
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Terminal quickstarter guide? [duplicate]

I'm very new to Ubuntu, and any other OS than Windows. Anyway, I was just thinking, is there a "Terminal Quick-starter guide" or something like that? Because I really want to learn the terminal, ...
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Gnome Terminal ignores default profile size

I am using Gnome 3.6 Ubuntu 12.10 kernel 3.5. My problem is that I have my default profile for gnome terminal set to 80x43. However, most of the time when launching Gnome terminal from the launcher, ...
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Everything has disappeared apart from the mouse pointer and desktop background

I had just entered these commands in the terminal:sudo service sudo service lightdm stop sudo apt-get install mesa- utils sudo service lightdm start Then a black screen came on with battery ...
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is there a file manager with which you can sort files manually as in Windows? or, Can I manually sort my files from the terminal?

In Nautilus you can sort files manually only in the icon view (and the arrangement is a mess). My question is: is there a file manager with which you can sort files manually as in Windows? i.e., ...
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terminal vim colours broken on focuslost

My vim setup uses the csexact plugin to fix match the colors for color schemes that would normally only work in gvim. Everything works fine until gnome-terminal loses focus, and suddenly everything ...
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How do I launch gnome-terminal inside a specified directory?

I created bash script to open terminal in current directory because of an issue with nautilus-open-terminal. The problem is, this one doesn't work gnome-terminal --working-directory = ...
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Git gui here script

I want to open git gui in any folder using context menu. It something like cd <path to folder> git gui in terminal. How to add this functionality into context menu?
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How re-map the shortcut key in terminal

According to the Gnome-Termianl Usage, I found that ctrl+shift+up/down can scroll up/down a line in the terminal. Now, I want to re-map the shortcut key, just like: shift+j/k to up/down a line, ...
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Configure Terminal such that it Automatically Leaves a New line after Executing a Command

I would like to configure the terminal so that it would leave a line after running a command. Just to make stuff cleaner. There is no such setting in "profile preferences". I'm running 12.10.
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Remove ugly fat bazel from gnome-terminal with multiple-tabs

When I start gnome-terminal it looks quite pleasant but when I open another tab it's borders turns ugly: How can I preserve thin bezel while using multiple tabs?
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How do I update DrRacket?

I installed DrRacket with the Software Center, but it only installs the verion 5.2.1. I downloaded the installer from the website http://racket-lang.org/download/ I just started using ubuntu... and ...
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Garbled text in terminal, titles and other places after upgrade to 12.10

After upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10 I am getting sporadic garbled text in the terminal, but it is also appearing in titles and occasionally the URL bar of chrome. Amazingly I was able to catch a ...
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Unintentionally moving multiple windows between workspaces in 12.10

I have an issue when using the Workspace Switcher to move windows between workspaces. When I click and drag one window to another workspace, others will (sometimes) come with it! So far, I've only ...
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How to install a wireless driver on my dell mini 9 running ubuntu 12.10 off a usb?

Not sure how to install a driver and which driver to use - or whether I could do something in terminal. I'm pretty sure there's no driver there already but I might be wrong. I'm running a dell mini ...
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Adding new commands

I have added some new commands to ~/.bash_profile but every time I start a new terminal session, it seems to forget these commands and I have to do . ~/.bash_profile again. Is there a way to avoid ...
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Manually edit terminal command history

My terminal history has hundreds of command, but I just want to keep a few of them Is there a way to manually edit the list of command executed in the terminal?
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Keyboard shortcut for Terminal doesn't work since updating to 12.10

I have Ctrl+Alt+T assigned as my keyboard shortcut to launch a Terminal window, but it stopped working after upgrading to 12.10. I have verified that it is still set in the Keyboard Shortcuts ...