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Unity progress bar for gnome-terminal?
One of my favorite features of unity is the progress bar the launcher overlays on the icons for various programs like the file manager, or firefox. Gnome-terminal does not have a progress bar. What do ...
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Terminal with multiple tabs doesn't stick to same screen when changing workspace
Minimal setup:
2 active workspaces (let's say top and bottom)
2 monitors on each. So 4 active windows.
top workspace, right monitor has Terminal with multiple tabs opened in full screen.
If I swap ...
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The terminal window auto closes after a while
I've been experiencing some weird behavior with my gnome-terminal. When I open it, without executing any script, just from the unity dash it closes itself after about 10 minutes. Regardless if I did ...
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How do I open a terminal in unity without window's top bar?
I would like (in Unity) to open a terminal as startup application; I created a simple script
gnome-terminal --profile=Startup --geometry 40x24+920+300
and put it in my startup applications. Anyway ...
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How to stop reordering of the same kind multiple preview windows in task switching?
When using task switching in the default graphical mode of Ubuntu 12.04, if they are multiple windows of the same kind, eg. multiple Terminal windows, you can see them all together and select which ...
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Unable to login to bash after editing .bash_profile
I've fiddled around with my .profile and .bash_profile to speed up some stuff:
PATH=$PATH:/home/yoshi/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools
First I appended the line to my .profile and perfect. Then I've ...
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How to make dash smaller in 12.04
Unity is a bit big at the moment. I want see what I am doing while in dash. So I want to resize dash. I've been reading some things about clicking the maximise/minimise but the don't work. It just ...
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incorrect work gnome terminal
I use at work Ubuntu Desktop 12.04. 80% of the time I spend in the terminal. After switching from the putty on gnome terminal, I was unpleasantly surprised to work with some devices (eg Extereme ...
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Menu bar acting weird and critical error when resetting Unity - what's happening?
I've been having a weird problem with the full-screen writing app Focuswriter on Ubuntu 12.04: when I open Focuswriter everything works as it should, when i minimize and maximize it once some of the ...
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How to get ALT+B and ALT+L to work in the terminal?
I'm used to the terminal hot-keys Alt+B to move forward one word and Alt+L to move back one word. However, in the new Unity of Ubuntu 12.04, this doesn't seem to work as holding Alt and pressing B ...
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Opening Another Instance of a Program?
I am testing out the use of Sakura instead of the Gnome Terminal. OS is Ubuntu 12.04 Precise. I often have multiple terminal windows open. How do you tell it to open a second window? Right clicking ...
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SSH shell launched using “expect” doesn't have full width. How can I make fix it?
I am using expect to auto login on SSH from an Unity launcher, the command looks something like this:
gnome-terminal -t SSH1 -e "expect -c 'spawn ssh root@111.222.333.255 ; expect assword ; send ...
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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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How to make unity terminal button open a separate terminal?
Just upgraded Ubuntu to 11.4, stuck with trying to accomplish things in this crazy new Unity desktop. In the vertical bar there's a button to open a terminal. Ok, I open a terminal, cd to a ...
