GNOME Terminal (often titled only "Terminal") is the default terminal emulator included in Ubuntu.
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How to use commands on files which have “-” at the start of their names?
This may be a simple question, but how do I use files starting with "-" with command line programs?
For example, I am trying to use pdfgrep on a file named -2013-01-01.pdf but it complains that ...
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Opening multiple tabs with gnome-terminal
I'm trying to create a command that will open 3 services from the Rails stack, rails s, spork, and autotest. I can run these commands individually by opening 3 terminals, going to the app folder and ...
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SSH terminal resizing not working - rackspace cloud server
It appears that rackspace cloud ubuntu servers that you ssh into do not auto resize the column count when you use gnome-terminal. They are fixed at whatever size you connect at. However, you do not ...
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running gnome-terminal with no window border on startup in xubuntu 12.10
I created a script to launch a session of gnome-terminal when I log into xubuntu. I specifically wanted it in a specific position on the window, and with no window borders (surprisingly, there's no ...
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Guake terminal appearance like a normal terminal?
I love how the normal terminal looks on Ubuntu.
I recently installed Guake and the Guake terminal is pretty simple (ugly): white on black with a simple font. Furthermore it's inconsistent with other ...
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Restoring theme colors in gnome-terminal
I followed this guide to test the Solarized theme in terminals in Ubuntu. I now want to go back to what I originally had.
Undoing the changes to my dircolors file is easy (I have a copy of my ...
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No shell prompt in gnome terminal
I was a bit behind and spent yesterday and a lot of bandwidth with three upgrades from 10.10 to 12.04. Most things seem to work but when, I launch the terminal, a get a new window but there isn't a ...
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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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Launching php script through comman line - keeping terminal window open after execution
Oh, my girlfriend really likes it when I launch php scripts! There's something special about them, she says ...
Thus, I coded this script to run throught the CLI (Command Line Interface) - so it's ...
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Open file with terminal and close terminal afterwards
I want to open a file using the terminal on ubuntu.
To have it independent from the terminal, I use gnome-open:
gnome-open text.pdf
And since I'm lazy, I also have this alias in my .bashrc:
alias ...
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Ubuntu Terminal Text Blink
In gnome-Terminal using this:
echo -e '\e[5mBlink Text\e[0m'
there's no blinking text. Only work in XTerm.
There's a way to do that?
thx.
P.S.:
I think It's still this unresolved issue:
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Open Terminal in an unused area of the desktop / dual port display
With shortcut Ctrl-Alt-T I open a gnome-terminal or two. I have a dual port display.
The layout logic is placing the terminal windows into the corners of the current desktop always, often on top of ...
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How can I change the default color for all the text in the system manually
How can I change the overall default color for text of the whole system ,be it for the gnome panel,tty,shell,etc.In all the just look and feel aspect of my system.
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How to open Terminal with last tabs open?
When you are using Terminal in Mac there is option to open last opened tabs when you launch Terminal.
Is there an option available on Ubnutu's (12.10) Terminal?
This is helpful when you have lot of ...
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How can I create a new profile for Gnome terminal via command line?
As everybody knows you can create a new profile by the menu where you get asked which existing profile should be the parent for your new profile and so on.
But how should I create a new profile by the ...
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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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Unable to execute run command in terminal; run: command not found
i tried to run the following command as user1@server1.com:-
run "server_name" 'ls -lt /home/nextag/live' and it gave the following error:- -bash: run: command not found
server1 is a jump server for ...
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How to use ' and " (quotes) as an argument
Intro
In a script I want to run a command in a separate window so that output of the command will show in a new window (which is an output stream like top) and they do not interfere each other. For ...
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Which bash shortcuts/tips are available? [closed]
Depending on his type of usage, an Ubuntu user may spend a lot of time in front of a terminal. Knowing some keyboard shortcuts can make you save a lot of time (ex: copy/paste text, move between the ...
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How can I open the present working directory (pwd) in Nautilus from the terminal? [duplicate]
How can I open a directory which I am currently working on from terminal in nautilus file manager?
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How to issue organize desktop command from the shell
I usually interact with the shell, but I prefer to have the items on the desktop organized. Is there a command or a scripting interface to organize the desktop?
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How to make username in terminal smaller?
When you open a terminal it displays the username and the machine name. As an example mine shows: romeo@romeo-Satellite-C660D:~$. It's really annoying because it's kinda big. Can i make this smaller. ...
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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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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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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS terminal removed
I have been using wine for a while now but it started showing some problems a few days ago so i used this command to remove it
sudo apt-get purge wine\*
now my system has none of the in built ...
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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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GNOME Terminal Transparency with GNOME Classic (no effects)
In the terminal preferences there is an option to make it transparent.
Now, in GNOME Classic with no effects (I think there is no Compiz), this option still exists. However, it is not true ...
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Why terminal disappeared when I open multiple ones?
After I opened multiple terminals in Ubuntu 12.04, some of them disappeared suddenly and only one terminal was kept. Why is this happening and how can I fix it?
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Continue script in terminal after pkill fullscreen program
I'm running a fullscreen program and i'm using pkill to close it by a keyboard shortcut. Killing the program works but my kill script also contains some other code. The rest of the script isn't being ...
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Is there a way to set variables resolving to path in terminal e.g: ~ is for /home/<username>
Just to clarify: I know we can set environment variables with export command like
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/..
For environment variables, we need to use '$' sign in starting and we can not ...
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Switch terminal output language from native language to english
How can I switch the terminal output language from my native language to English, so I can post my Ask Ubuntu question with English terminal output (error messages)?
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How to open an application in terminal and detach it? [duplicate]
I opened Cairo-dock in my terminal with: open cairo-dock and that worked but if I close the terminal it goes with it. How can I keep it open regardless of the terminal?
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How to delete the .swp files when working remotely
I opened a file in vi, but unfortunately while changing it the terminal crashed. Now when I Try to open the same file again in a new session it displays the following message
E325: ATTENTION
Found a ...
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Terminal got hanged when editing something in vi
I was making some changes to a remote file in vi using the terminal when I accidently pressed Ctrl+S instead of :wq.
Now everything got hanged. I tried Escape,:q! and all sorts of vi commans but ...
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My Gnome terminal is not working properly
I'm new to ubuntu 12.04 LTS
The problem is described below.
My terminal comes with following sign only $ its not showing like kaushik-kaushik-pc -$.
Second problem is the when I try to become super ...
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get back command prompt after opening programs from terminal
When I launch any application from terminal, then the terminal gets locked until I close that application. What I want is just to use terminal for launching programs and then use the same terminal for ...
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How to save terminal history manually?
It's my understanding that the history file is updated when the terminal exits. But sometimes my computer crashes out, and the terminal doesn't exit cleanly, and then I lose those commands from my ...
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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 to automate execution of sequence of commands in ubuntu?
I am new to LINUX operating system. I am using ROS (Robotic Operating System) where I type few commands in separate terminal windows for doing the setup.
ie Before I run my program, I have to ...
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Running 32Bit Application on 64Bit Ubuntu
I type in the terminal sudo apt-get install ia32-libs but I get this message:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
reading state information... done
some packages could not be ...
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Open any file using terminal window [duplicate]
I just want to know some commands so that I can open some files using terminal window.
for example: how to open pdf files using terminal?
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What does 'Locale not supported by C' mean?
marco@marco-laptop:~$ onboard
(python:3065): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
I am using keyboard on the desktop (long story) from the terminal and ...
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Startup Application in SELECTED terminal
I am running on Ubuntu 12.04 and would like to run an application on startup, in a maximized terminal, selected. I solved all problems exept the last one. so for now i have
gnome-terminal --maximize ...
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Gnome-terminal- how do i open a new winodow asking to authentificate as root?
I have a script that checks for usb devices. If the device is valid, (it's in my database, a text file) my script mounts it, and if the device is not in my database, i get a messgae "invalid device ...
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Errors encountered while processing? [closed]
:~$ sudo dpkg -i /tmp/transmission_1.06-0ubuntu6.1_all.deb
(Reading database ... 211727 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace transmission 1.06-0ubuntu6.1 (using ...
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Change tab-behavior in terminal
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with the Unity interface.
If I type
ls $MYPATH/Do<tab>
it returns
ls \$MYPATH/Documents
with an extra space at the end. The space I think can be solved by a ...
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Possible to customize Terminal context (right-click) menu?
I am making the transition to Ubuntu 10.0.04 from years of Windows. It would help if the terminal could have the right-click context menu display the copy command first in the command list, instead of ...
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Copy a files with defined transfer rate
I am using Linux via an external drive & as such it's not able to provide that transfer speed efficiency as is provided by internal SATA plus not every PC has USB3...
Thus when I transfer say a ...
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gnome-terminal hangs on start in KDE
I have multiple desktops installed (Ubuntu 12.10), and while logged in with KDE I see the following strange behaviour. When starting gnome-terminal, it opens a window with the title and menu rendered, ...
