GNOME Terminal (often titled only "Terminal") is the default terminal emulator included in Ubuntu.
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Can I use the terminal from 11.04 in 10.10?
I had Ubuntu 10.10.
I had seen terminal of Ubuntu 11 version.
It's really good to see the maximize features of that terminal.
Can i upgrade my current terminal to Version 11 terminal?
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Why does flashplugin-installer display a multi-line terminal progress when downloading?
I have this issue from MANY Ubuntu releases.
why when I wget a file it takes just one row and give me all information (like time, total space, bit downloaded, percent)
When downloading flashplugin ...
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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"
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Why can't I launch eclipse from a terminal or run it via gmrun?
I can't launch eclipse from either terminal or gmrun but I can do so using Applications -> Programming -> Eclipse.
Here are the screenshots:
1) Using Gmrun: I can see that gmrun is recognizing the ...
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Is there a way to open 4 terminal windows every time I login?
I want to open four terminal windows into the first pane (upper left-hand side) when ubuntu boots. I have two terminal profiles: default and Mail. I want two of the windows Mail windows, and the ...
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Take screenshot of terminal
I'm Using Gnome2.
I have on My first workspace two terminals open (gnome-terminal).
I want a screenshot of the whole terminal1 window.
I don't want set up the bounding box of the screenshot with my ...
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How do I search within a particular directory using the locate command?
Sorry, this question is going to be total newb factor. How do I search within a particular directory using the locate command?
The following command isn't working for me:
# locate -i ...
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How to pipe single result from output of locate command to another command?
After running the following command...
# locate -i "little"
I receive these results.
/mnt/external/Songs/The White Stripes/[1999] The White Stripes/14 little people.mp3
/mnt/external/Songs/The ...
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What do each of the colors of files/folders returned from running the ls command mean in gnome terminal? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Color Meanings in Terminal
When I run the
# ls
command, a list of files and folders are returned.
Some of them are colored blue, others green.
I'm new to terminal ...
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Error message when running “make” command: /usr/bin/ld: i386 architecture of input file is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
I am unable to create a working executable file by running the make command. I'm getting an error message in the form of
me@me-desktop:~$ make
/usr/bin/ld: i386 architecture of input file `../.. ...
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How to remove all files from a directory?
The closest I've gotten is
# rm /path/to/directory/*.*
but that doesn't work for files that don't have an extension...
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What start up scripts are executed when a terminal is opened in Ubuntu?
When I open a terminal, it says cannot execute the binary file and the output is something like this,
bash: /home/sandeep/bin/uname: cannot execute binary file
bash: [: =: unary operator expected
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How to search the contents in a directory from terminal while you're in the middle of writing a command?
I'm trying to become comfortable with the terminal by using it as much as I can. The aspect of my computer usage where I lose most time using command line instead of the gui is when I try to find a ...
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What are the hotkeys to find the next and previous occurrence of a search term in man and info?
Let's say you wanted to search the documentation for mplayer:
# man mplayer
To search for "length" you would type "/length" while in man and press enter. To go to the next occurrence of "length" ...
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How do I change the transparency level of gnome-terminal?
I want to increase or decrease the transparency of gnome-terminal in Unity.
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sort the results from `apt-cache search <keywords>`
Is there a way to sort the results from apt-cache search <keywords>?
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How do I disable global gnome shortcuts in gnome-terminal?
Bash has a myriad of useful shortcuts. For instance Alt+B, which moves the cursor back one word. Only I have assigned this particular combination and a few other shortcuts to do things in gnome. The ...
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Can't launch gnome-terminal from anacron job
A few releases ago (lucid lynx) I wrote a backup shell script task that was executed as an anacron job every week. It worked fine then. However, It fails in natty.
The idea was simple. The script ...
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How can I permanently change the text size for gnome-terminal?
I just wanted to ask...
It seems that you need to press Ctrl + - (ctrl plus the minus sign) in order to get better resolution (smaller text) when running terminal.
But I was wondering if there was a ...
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Cryptsetup Warning [closed]
I was installing Xfce under GNOME in Terminal and everything seems to have worked, but Terminal displayed these two messages just before the install finished.
cryptsetup: WARNING: failed to detect ...
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Repeated long command in gnome-terminal do not show up in full
Let's say I type a shell command in gnome-terminal/bash that spans multiple lines and run it.
shell> abcdef ghijk lmn
opq rstuv wxyz
Then when I want to run the same command again, I hit the ...
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gnome-terminal does not differentiate between C-d and C-S-d
When I run cat on gnome-terminal, both C-d and C-S-d terminate it. This is because gnome-terminal cannot distinguish between these keys and sends and EOF in both the cases. Is there a ways I can ...
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Dynamic line wrapping in the GNOME Terminal
How can you get the lines in the GNOME Terminal to wrap dynamically when you resize the window?
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How to set terminal tab titles font size?
I constantly get to a situation where my 1-2 character tab titles are cut, as I have over 20 tabs open.
One way to solve my problem, would be to decrease the font size of the tab titles. Any idea how ...
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Making Ctrl+C copy text in gnome-terminal?
Is it possible for me to make Ctrl+C perform a copy command if there is highlighted text in the terminal?
Otherwise, it should retain its normal behavior.
(If there is a terminal that can do this ...
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Changing shell to zsh broke my terminal
I ran sudo chsh -s /bin/zsh to change my default shell to zsh. I then restarted my computer. When I turned it back on I get just $ as the prompt, so it doesn't look like I even get bash any more.
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Is there a hotkey to switch between tabs in the default terminal app?
Is there a hotkey to switch between tabs in Ubuntu's native terminal app? I'm using the netbook version of ubuntu.
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Setting gnome-terminal window size from within ~/.bashrc
It know that it is possible to pass the --geometry=WxH arguments when using launcher, but how to set this option with the ~/.bashrc file.
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Set Ctrl+Alt+T to open a maximized terminal
I use the Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut to open a terminal, but I cannot see how I can get it maximized. When I start it manually, I can simply do a gnome-terminal --maximize, but that does not apply for the ...
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How do I get gnome-terminal not to truncate lines?
I have a huge xml file which I want to look at with cat some.xml | less but the gnome terminal truncates the lines making it difficult to read the output.
How do I get gnome-terminal not to truncate ...
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How to open the terminal? (Mis-configured the profile)
I am quite new to Ubuntu. (I started to use Ubuntu about a year ago, but I don't know how to use things like terminal well. All I used by console was easy things like ls or cd, to use gcc.)
Today, I ...
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How do I disable the blinking cursor in gnome-terminal?
I could have sworn that there was once a setting for this in the gnome-terminal "Profile".
And then in some version of Ubuntu, that setting disappeared, and I had to use System ➜ Preferences ➜ ...
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How to open a file or folder from Terminal with mouse
I'd like to know if there is a way to open a file or a folder from terminal using the mouse?
When I wrote a URL LINK in terminal, it's allows me to open that link on my default browser. So I'd like ...
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Integrating gnome-terminal with notify-osd
I'm wondering if it's possible to integrate NotifyOSD with gnome-terminal.
I'd like if NotifyOSD warned me if there was new output in gnome-terminal (if the window isn't focused). As soon as a new ...
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Gnome Terminal Column/Row Width?
I wish to have an image in my terminal background but I am unsure how big the image needs to be. The terminal is sized at 80x24 which means 80 columns wide and 24 rows high, however I am unable to ...
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how to get output of a script/program into a file?
I am compiling a program using make and want the output of make to be written to a file. I have tried using > operator like
make > build_log.txt
and using tee command like
make | tee ...
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How to remove gVim's fat bottom border? (and resize grip)
So my gVim has this annoying bottom border:
I wish it didn't and looked more like gnome-terminal for example:
Is there any way for gVim to look like that?
UPDATE: There is! Here's a screenshot ...
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gnome-terminal tabs are very dark, difficult to tell which tab is in use
Here are two applications that use tabs: gedit and gnome-terminal
gedit: It is relatively easy to see which document is being edited
terminal: It is difficult to tell whether I am using the left or ...
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How can I stop a terminal connection from timing out
At work I have two machines: Windows XP and Ubuntu 11.04.
On my XP machine I use Putty to connect to some servers and can leave those windows open for weekends without them timing out.
However, when ...
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Is there a way to left-click links in gnome-terminal or am I out of luck?
I'm using irssi hosted on a remote computer for IRC, and it'd be super helpful not to have to hold Control or right-click every single link (so I can avoid multiple clicks or multiple hands).
At this ...
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Stop Terminal to auto-put forward slash in front of $HOME
I am running 11.04.
Every time i tried to a command such as
mv flieA $HOME/<somedir>/
Terminal automatically put "\" in front of $HOME when I hit the 'Tab' key for autocomplete
mv flieA ...
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Terminal: Open multiple profiles in tabs
I have terminal connections to various systems available from the Terminal if I use File->Tab->(system name). Sometimes I want to open a certain set of systems in tabs.
Is there a command I can use ...
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Merge split terminal tab back into one terminal
In a terminal window, I can use File > Open Tab to get two tabs in the same window.
Then, if I move the terminal up to the top of the OS, those two tabs become two separated windows.
How can I merge ...
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Disable resizing of specific window using Devilspie
I wonder if it is possible to disable resizing of a specific window using Devilspie?
I currectly have a terminal window docked to my desktop background with title bars and frame and everything ...
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How to make cursor change from thin line to block based on normal or insert mode in Console Vim on Gnome Terminal
I am switching from Gvim to using Console Vim using the Gnome Terminal 2.32.1.
I really liked in Gvim how the cursor would be a solid square when in normal mode and thin line when in insert mode.
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Is there a way to restore all terminals at startup
I would like to know if there is a way to restore all terminals after a reboot?
The following thread refers to 'System > Preferences > Session'
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=791504
Which ...
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Can I make a *.desktop item always be maximized?
Is there anything I can add to a *.desktop file (used in my Launcher panel) to make the application always open maximized? In particular, I'm looking at the gnome-terminal.
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What is “Change Profile” in the gnome-terminal, and why is it disabled?
In Terminal menu, inside the gnome-terminal, I have the option "Change Profile". What is it for? And why is it disabled?
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How to make selected tab in terminal more prominent
Something about the color scheme changed in 11.04, and now it's very difficult for me to tell which tab is the selected one.
On my screen, the colors look more similar the further down I slouch in ...
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How to change the default graphical terminal from VT7? [closed]
The Gnome desktop environment starts in VT7 by dafault. How do I change it to start in VT12?
I have already tried editing /etc/default/console-setup to specify active terminals as 1-11, and then ...
