GNOME Terminal (often titled only "Terminal") is the default terminal emulator included in Ubuntu.
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How do I deactivate F1 and F10 keybindings in gnome-terminal?
How can I turn off the F1 (help) and F10 (notifications menu) key bindings?
First one I need for screen utility and second to exit mc in console.
There are no such key bindings in the Keyboard ...
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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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su command + authentication failure
I am having problems with the su command. I know my password and I am typing it correctly but su indicates authentication failure.
So I checked on the internet and then went into recovery mode and ...
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How to set the terminal to open maximized
I want to tell compiz, metacity, the gnome-terminal or whoever is in charge to open the terminal window maximized by default.
How can I do that?
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Run simple bash script to start applications at login
I want to run a simple bash script automatically when I log in. For example
#!/bin/bash
echo "start spotify"
gnome-terminal -e spotify --title spotify
When I run this command, one gnome-terminal ...
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Is there a good mono-spaced font for Devanagari script in the Terminal?
All the terminal fonts I have tried result in inaccurate rendering of the Devanagari sript (and/or Roman script) in the Terminal
In the Devanagari script, a vowel binds itself to a preceding ...
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How to disable the alt-hotkey behavior on gnome terminal?
This is not just gnome terminal, but pretty much all gnome windows: When you hold the "alt" key, you can press the first letter of one of the menu items. This will let you scroll that menu without ...
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Setting nautilus-open-terminal to launch Terminator rather than gnome-terminal
The nautilus-open-terminal package adds a menu/right-click option to open a terminal in the current directory.
I want to change this from opening gnome-terminal to opening terminator. There is some ...
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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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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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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 ...
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How to change Gnome-Terminal title?
I have several instances of terminals running in my working environment, what I would like is to set a specific title for each one, in order to have a clear idea what purpose the specific terminal ...
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How to open a directory/folder and a URL through Terminal
I can navigate my files quite fast through terminal. Faster than double clicking... open... look, double click... etc.
How do I open a directory in the Ubuntu GUI? For example:
cd projects
{some ...
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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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Backspace, Tab, Del and arrow keys not working in terminal (using ssh)
When I ssh into another Ubuntu machine with my account (with sudo permissions), my backspace key generates some awkward symbols on pressing. Also Tab, Del and Arrow keys don't work.
On the other ...
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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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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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Adding timestamps to terminal prompts?
I was wondering if it was possible to add timestamps to terminal prompts, and if so, how could I achieve this?
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How do you set the title of the active gnome-terminal from the command line?
Is there a way to set the gnome-terminal title from within the terminal itself without having to right click on the tab. Something like:
active-terminal --title "Foo"
There was a related question ...
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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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What are “select-by-word” characters?
What are the "select-by-word" in gnome-terminal's preferences?
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Where is 'open in terminal'?
I'm trying to figure out where is 'open in terminal' when right clicking inside a folder?
Last time I used it was in Ubuntu 10.10 and since upgrading have no luck with it.
I gave up on Unity and ...
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Is it possible to save output from a command to a file after the command already has been executed?
Does an elegant way exist to save the output of a command to a file after the command has been run, with the terminal window is open?
I mean once the command has been executed in the terminal. The ...
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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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How to default to newest version of Python? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I make the terminal run python 3.1?
I am using Ubuntu 10.10 and just installed Python 3.1 but entering python on my Gnome Terminal gets me Python 2.6 . How to fix ...
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How to rotate background Images in Gnome-Terminal
I have an image I use as a background while using the terminal.
I would like to know if there is a way for a selected few images can be rotated when using the terminal.
Not like a moving ...
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How to undo an operation done in terminal?
I had deleted an important file once
and later i had changed the permissions of a file
which i am not able to revert now. Is there any way through which i can undo delete or revert permissions on ...
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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 to store my gnome terminal color palette
I use terminal and vim extensively, while writing code. I have created a color palette which is based on readability and easy-use with an autocomplete plugin(obtain plugins from Pydiction : ...
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keyboard shortcut gnome-terminal (ctrl-tab) and (ctrl-shift-tab) in 12.04?
Keyboard shortcuts in gnome-terminal (Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab) in 12.04 don't seem to be working. Is there a setting that I dont know of?
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Can I specify what characters set the double-click selection boundary in GNOME Terminal?
When I double-click to select text in GNOME Terminal, the selection stops at spaces but continues over hyphens:
Some of my filenames contain uncommon characters such as the heavy teardrop-spoked ...
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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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How can I create a “built-in” color scheme for GNOME Terminal?
GNOME Terminal has a few built-in color schemes:
How can I add more to this list?
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Gedit Embedded Terminal Uses Incorrect Palette
I've followed the advice to turn off "use-theme-colors" and also set a custom background color in my embedded gedit terminal. But somehow, the palette setting is ignored and colors show as only black ...
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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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gnome-open window positioning
I've been using Ubuntu since 10.04, and seriously loving life. I'm on 12.04 and it's great.
As some super users would know:
gnome-open /home/username/somefile.txt
will open a window in gnome.
Is ...
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Colored text doesn't show in terminal
Colored text in terminal doesn't show even after un-commenting force_color_prompt=yes in .bashrc. I have to reload .bashrc by issuing . ~/.bashrc command before it takes effect.
.bashrc
# ~/.bashrc: ...
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Add terminal session with network to login in screen
I want to add a terminal Xsession to the log in drop down screen. Can anyone let me know how to do this? No desktop, load only terminal with network support.
Booting in recovering from grub lets me ...
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Why we can't run commands with gnome shortcuts?
When I make a custom shortcut with gnome (gnome-control-center keyboard) I can't set it to a command. Why?
Example: I can't set a shortcut for sudo apt-get update. Instead I must first invoke a ...
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User account password removed but terminal still asking for password [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Authenticate user that has no password?
I'm new to Ubuntu. I recently installed 11.10 and removed the user account password. However, now when I try to do anything in ...
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xtitle not changing title in Ubuntu 11.04
I'm trying to find a way to quickly change the title of a Gnome Terminal 2.32.1 window since I have quite a few open and I'm editing different files in each, using a compiler in one, tailing log files ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Terminal closes when minimized
My terminal window closes when minimized or when I maximize other program window. This is not useful when coping and pasting commands lines...
Also the terminal window do not appear in the launch ...
