Questions tagged [gnome-terminal]

GNOME Terminal (often titled only "Terminal") is the default terminal emulator included in Ubuntu.

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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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How to do: underline, bold, italic, strikethrough, color, background, and size in Gnome Terminal?

How to do: underline, bold, italic, strikethrough, and color in Gnome Terminal? Bold Italic u̲n̲d̲e̲r̲l̲i̲n̲e̲ s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶s̶ ̶h̶o̶t Color background font < (its mono if you ...
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Can't open terminal

So for some reason I haven't been able to open the terminal in ubuntu anymore, I already tried the solutions from these threads Terminal does not start on Remote Desktop; how to fix it? Can't ...
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gnome-terminal installed but not opening

I tried to install the newest version of Python in my Ubuntu laptop. When I finished installing it, I realized that my Terminal and some other apps were gone. They were not among my favorites where I ...
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Getting error while running sudo commands, from /etc/sudo.conf file

I want to run commands in terminal with sudo and get in this error for running sudo commands: sudo su sudo: error in /etc/sudo.conf, line 16 while loading plugin "sudoers_audit" sudo: ...
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Invoke a program as a command on any working directory on ubuntu's terminal [duplicate]

I have written a program in C and produced an executable from it. I want to use this program from any pwd. One method is to make its pathname a environment variable using export. But in this method, ...
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Terminal: I can't type anything

I am on Ubuntu 22.04 and I was trying to download updates but my machine glitched, I couldn't do anything, waited for a few minutes, and then had to force off the machine by holding down the power ...
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All terminals are only black all the time. How to get access again? [closed]

If I load up a terminal in linux mint, it is entirely black, both xfce and guake. I cannot type anything, cannot Ctrl+C, there is no keyboard input that interacts with the terminal in any way. ...
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Login for Terminal

When I run terminal in Linux Ubuntu, it runs normally. By that I mean that there is no login required. I am actually not sure if it is supposed to ask for login information, but I am wondering if ...
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NO audio from capture card using ubuntu and unofficial OBS

I have the latest release of ubuntu as of 3/6/24 anyways. I get video and audio from the laptop. however I do not get any audio from the capture card! yes this cap card is confirmed to work with linux ...
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Can't install RuneScape (tried Ubuntu client and Wine)

I was trying to get back into the game RuneScape the other day, and tried copying and pasting the terminal code on RuneScape's website for the Ubuntu client: sudo -s -- << EOF wget -O - https://...
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Control-R stopped working, I have to press Control-Shift-R instead

Before, I could hit Control-R in GNOME Terminal to enter Bash's (reverse-i-search) mode. However, this stopped working, the cursor just flashes without doing anything. This also affects remote and ...
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Configure Terminal for Mouse

How can I configure my sessions in a terminal window (gnome-terminal, mate-terminal, etc) to process mouse clicks? For example, to move my cursor to another part of the screen.
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Command line application which remembers/saves tabs?

Are there any Linux terminals available on Ubuntu which remember tabs (like Firefox) and easy to install? Been using Konsole but it doesn't have this feature. Really fed-up having to re-open 10/20 ...
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Exit full screen terminal

Accidently, I entered full-screen display in the terminal. I now can't get out of the full screen display back to normal display. How can I do this?
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Terminal and other apps suddenly won't open

Ubuntu 22.04.01 LTS Gnome Version 42.5 Terminal won't open either via the GUI or by the keyboard shortcut. When I click the GUI icon a circle merely spins. Keyboard shortcuts tried: ctrl + alt + del ...
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Terminal emulator with a “restore session” feature like Mac Terminal

The Mac terminal is able to restore a previous session. I just had a MacBook reboot, and when the terminal opened, all my previous commands were there in the display and all the tabs, as if it was ...
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Gnome Terminal staircase pattern

I just upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04.2 (Linux 5.15.0-67), using XFCE desktop environment, with Gnome Terminal version 3.44.0. I have a script program to do backups which I have run essentially ...
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Jump to beginning of output of last command

This is a question I've had for around a decade now and I've never found an answer. To make it specific though, I'll ask in the context of my current environment. On Ubuntu 16.04, using the gnome ...
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Keyboard shortcut for opening the terminal in the current directory?

I would like to have a keyboard shortcut that opens a terminal in the current directory. Here is what I already did: open_terminal_here.sh: #!/bin/zsh gnome-terminal --working-directory="$PWD&...
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Automatically starting a quad-split byobu terminal

I want to avoid wasting time doing my startup ritual by having the following done automatically: Open up a new terminal Run byobu Split horizontally, then split the two new panes vertically (or vice ...
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how to Disable windows key(left+right) on ubuntu23.10?

While working with ubuntu 23.10, I want to disable the functioning of the Windows key from the command or program. How can I achieve it?
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What type of user interface does GNOME Terminal have?

I read here that a terminal emulator is just a wrapper program that runs a (command-line) shell. So we can type different commands into this shell (which runs inside a terminal application). In ...
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How to enable tab autocomplete for scripts located in ~/bin?

If I put an executable in ~/bin I can just type the first few letters of the filename and then hit tab to let the shell finish the rest of the name. While this works with executable programs, it ...
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Cannot write into terminal

After starting terminal the cursor appears, but cannot type any character. I tried: To start Midnight Commander from Application list, but only blank terminal window started with blinking cursor; ...
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How to fix the terminal

the problem is that commands in the terminal are not executed, at first thought that the problem in the terminal (Gnome), reinstalled, but the problem remains.Interestingly, yesterday everything ...
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How to scroll up/down in terminal with pageUp/pageDown

I prefer to work without a mouse. This means I prefer to use PageUp and PageDown instead of the scroll wheel. This works fine, except in the gnome terminal. I need to use shift-pageUp/Down there. I ...
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How to change symbol from spaceship theme on .zshrc?

I can't change the symbol "right arrow" in the terminal with the theme spaceship. Below has an image from the terminal: However my file .zshrc includes the lines for changing the symbol. ...
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How do I make the background of transparent Terminal windows blurry in Ubuntu Gnome 16.04?

This is what gnome-terminal looks like currently: I want the background of the terminal window to be blurred, roughly like so:
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Ubuntu 23.10 Terminal turned into a text editor

The Terminal suddenly does not accept commands anymore and basically behaves like a text editor. The last commands that I put in before this happened was just some nvm commands, i.e. nvm alias ...
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Jump to the Open Terminal Window [duplicate]

I've always got a terminal window open in my Ubuntu GNOME Wayland session. I know Ctrl+Alt+T is a keyboard shortcut to open a new terminal window. But how do I create a keyboard shortcut to jump to ...
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Chromium Installation Problem

I run sudo apt-get install chromium-browser on terminal to install chromium. I got this: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following ...
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Problem with "gnome-terminal" on Gnome 3.12.2

I have Ubuntu-Gnome 14.04 (Gnome 3.12.2). When I try to run gnome-terminal by following command : $ gnome-terminal Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal: /org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: ...
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gnome terminal scrollbar visibility

According the manual below https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-terminal/stable/pref-scrolling.html.en There is an option (Edit ▸ Profile Preferences ▸ Scrolling) "Scrollbar visibility" so that you ...
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Scrolling gnome-terminal output programmatically?

Is there some way to automatically scroll to the beginning of the terminal output from sh script? I have custom build routine in my development process: sh script is using inotifywait to detect source ...
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Start GNOME from terminal

I'm new and not familiar with Linux and would like to know how I can start the user graphical interface GNOME. In the terminal I entered startx but after the process has been done nothing happens. I ...
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How to run multiple commands in multiple terminals using single shell script command

I have tried to write a shell script to run multiple commands in multiple terminals, but I am not able to run the commands. I can only open multiple terminals. This is written in a shell script file ...
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Cannot open terminal

I'm new to ubuntu and took many days trying to solve a problem I'm having. I searched the Internet and I have not found anything concrete that can fix it so this is my problem: When I try to open ...
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How to remove title bar from terminal in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS?

Terminal I want to remove title bar from gnome-terminal as it takes to much space on my 13 inch laptop. I have tried this command: gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Settings headerbar "@mb ...
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INFO command in linux ubuntu is installed and is giving the following error in the terminal: aborted (core image saved)

I try to use the command, but it always shows this error. I have already reinstalled and installed it and it persists. Info gnome-shell[2571]: [2565:2594:1222/143805.051407:ERROR:...
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gnome-terminal change tab color ubuntu 19.04

I'm using the gnome-terminal in ubuntu 19.04 quite alot. When using multiple tabs black letters on white background this looks like the picture below: I think that the tab bar is (depending on the ...
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gnome-terminal window doesn't refresh when maximized on ubuntu 22.04 (X11)

Sometimes when I maximize the gnome-terminal window it stops refreshing. The content inside the terminal stops updating, while the terminal itself continues to work. However, if I resize the window to ...
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Script to launch mutiple terminal of terminator

I am new to terminator, where I need to launch 4 terminal. I have a script run1.sh which I want to run on first two terminal simultaneously and script run2.sh in other two terminal simultaneously. ...
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Cannot control terminal after installing Node

I can no longer control my Ubuntu 22.04 terminal. The terminal asks me to install ng-common and then I can't use the terminal. This is how my terminal currently looks like: I was trying to install ...
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How do I set terminal ctrl+c (interrupt) to super+c

How do I set ctrl+c (interrupt) to super+c in terminal? Any other key combination for sending the interrupt is unacceptable. Modifying the behavior of ctrl & super outside of the context of ...
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gnome-terminal instantly closes after messing with the profile settings

I am using Gnome Terminal in Ubuntu 14.04 and I modified the profile preferences, setting it to start with a custom command instead of the default. I can't remember what that custom command was, but ...
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Ubuntu 16.04: can't open the terminal after trying to install Python

Yesterday I installed Ubuntu, but now I cannot open Terminal... I click on the Terminal icon and it doesn't start, and ctrl+alt+t isn't working either. I've read different ways to fix this (and none ...
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How to set GNOME Console as default Terminal app?

As of the moment writing this, gnome-terminal is the default terminal app in GNOME. However, considering development progress of the new app called gnome-console you may want to use it as the default ...
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How to control gnome-terminal from Python script?

I am developing an application in PyGtk, and would like to launch a gnome-terminal and output commands to it. My user should then be able to modify the command, or maybe ignore using the up arrow ... ...
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Can't I scroll in the terminal up? Terminal shows only 24 rows? The scrollbar on the right fills the entire vertical height of the window?

Based on: Terminal output scrolling is gone (Headless 11.10 Server, Upgraded from 10.10) and https://superuser.com/questions/1331658/why-cant-i-scroll-in-the-terminal and my own dire situation right ...

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