GNOME Terminal (often titled only "Terminal") is the default terminal emulator included in Ubuntu.
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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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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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How to set z-index for gnome-terminal?
Is it possible to control the z-index of a new gnome-terminal window? I want to open a new terminal with a script, but rather than showing it as a popup, I want to make it as the first available ...
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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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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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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, ...
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Can I set my computer to say ' Shut down ' when I shut it down rather than show GNOME Lines?
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 and the first time I shut it down it started showing GNOME lines. I didn't change any settings before and it goes on for a reasonable amount of time. I don't want to use ...
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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 fix with the Font at the Terminal?
I would like how to repair this problem with Font at the Terminal ( gnome-shell ) and at the headers of the windows . It happened after that I try install conky to view gadgets on the screen.
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Set terminal title to taskbar?
When I use vim to edit some file, I have the set title command in my .vimrc.
So it changes the title of the terminal.
But this changed/new title is not reflected on taskbar.
Is there any way to do ...
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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 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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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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How can I test if a variable matches another value and move to another function?
I am writing a script where I store a predetermined line of text into a string (we will call abc). I am storing the results from grep -iqs $USER file (we will call def) into another string.
How can ...
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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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Gnome-terminal, shift+enter interpreted as shift+enter
I use the GUI emacs and Shift+Enter evaluates the current line in R (ess-mode).
I've recently started using emacs -nw in gnome-terminal and Shift+Enter gets interpreted as Enter
i.e C-h-k for ...
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12.04 Terminal Tab Color under gnome classic
The tab color for gnome-terminal is different (light color) from the system Ambiance theme. What can I modify in /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets.css in order to get a consistent look ...
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Terminal not working does not open at all
Hi everybody i dont know if this topic has been already adressed.
since i have installed the ubuntu 12.10 terminal is not opening,i tried uninstalling it and installing it again but it does not help.
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Garbled text in terminal, titles and other places after upgrade to 12.10
After upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10 I am getting sporadic garbled text in the terminal, but it is also appearing in titles and occasionally the URL bar of chrome. Amazingly I was able to catch a ...
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How to recover from terminal custom setup
I installed ubuntu 12.04 and I added "Terminal" to the launcher bar, the default size of the terminal is a bit small, after some googling here is how I made the disaster change:
At HUD menu, type ...
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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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Hiding the terminal window when running script from gnome launcher
I have an executable script which starts a simple java GUI, which all works fine when I call the script from the terminal.
I then wanted to make a launcher to start the script, so I ran:
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How can I color my terminals in a random background and random text or highlight them by tab colour?
I have my terminal day and night with 50 to 100 tabs open. Each tabs has remote servers using SSH connected for maintaining.
Sometimes i get confused in which system i am connected and did lot of ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Terminal not working after installing amd graphics driver
I installed Ubuntu 13.04 x64. Also i was using xorg's open source radeon driver. I installed ati driver from official amd website. Now my terminal is not working. e.g i typed it for testing
sudo ...
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guest account permissions impede gnome-terminal and externalmonitor
In a guest account:
there was an error creating the child process for this terminal //
grantpt failed: permission denied
is the error I get on starting gnome-terminal from F2.
I also can't use an ...
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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 ...
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Letter-spacing in gnome-terminal
After update to 13.04 have broken fonts in gnome terminal:
It is "Ubuntu Mono 13" font, but same spacing problems occurs with any monospace font.
What can I do?
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'Acquire::http::Proxy: command not found' message at terminal when started
As soon as I start command terminal window, following message appears in the terminal
Acquire::http::Proxy: command not found
Acquire::ftp::Proxy: command not found
Acquire::https::Proxy: command not ...
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I cannot mount my USB flash drive although I can see it with lsusb
library4@maths1-3000-N200:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 090c:1000 Silicon Motion, Inc. - Taiwan (formerly Feiya Technology Corp.) 64MB QDI U2 DISK
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 08ff:2580 AuthenTec, Inc. ...
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I Want to Program jdbc in ubuntu with MySql
I want to Practise Jdbc Programs with Mysql in Ubuntu 12.04
So If you can Help me in Installing Procedure and Running up the Program it would be nice
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gnome-screensaver-command on python
I have the following code to check whether the screen is locked or not (using gnome-screensaver)
gnome-screensaver-command -q | grep "is active"
From this link, How can I put the display to sleep ...
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Unable to fork: Cannot allocate memory
frequently getting 'fork: Cannot allocate memory' when running commands over ssh. I have 64Gb of RAM and usually 1~2Gb free.
swap is more than 8gb free
Ubuntu version:"Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS" Desktop ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Terminal Automatically Runs some commands
I've recently tried to run a command in ubuntu 12.10 terminal and it failed. Now each time I start the terminal, that command runs automatically and I get the failure message. Someone please please ...
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Size gnome-terminal by percentage of screen size from script?
As mentioned by the nixcraft forums, it is possible to open a terminal with specific pixel size dimensions:
gnome-terminal --geometry 40 x 53
BUT... I would like to size the window dimensions as ...
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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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open terminal from nautilus by mouse click + ctrl
I have installed nautilus-open-terminal and it works but is rather clumsy. For better productivity I would like to use more intuitive shortcut in form of mouse click + ctrl to invoke gnome-terminal. ...
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Mouse not working when starting Ubuntu
I started ubuntu and my mouse isn't working. Even in log in screen. If I shake my mouse all the time while booting then my mouse will work.
I think the mouse peripheral hasn't been detected and ...
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How to change gedit embedded terminal to be “run command as login shell”?
My main reason for doing so was due to latest update to RVM.
https://rvm.io/integration/gnome-terminal/
My normal terminal works fine now. But the embeded one inside gedit is a problem.
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How to access a directory with the cd command?
I'm new on Ubuntu and I'm having some troubles to access the directory /var/php5/.
I tried the command:
$ cd /var/php5
But it returns the following error:
No file found or invalid path
I'm sure ...
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Unintentionally moving multiple windows between workspaces in 12.10
I have an issue when using the Workspace Switcher to move windows between workspaces. When I click and drag one window to another workspace, others will (sometimes) come with it! So far, I've only ...
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GNOME terminal missing 2 lines
Weird problem. Ubuntu 12.04 is up to date.
Gnome terminal subtracts two lines from the preferences or geometry settings.
If I say 80x24, I only get 22 lines in the terminal. Whatever I set the lines ...
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Problem with gnome-terminal and multi-tab after a restart
On Ubuntu 10.04.04 LTS with gnome-terminal 2.30.2 with serveral tab open in a terminal. When I restart my computer the terminal with all the tab is here but I cannot acces to the terminal, write or ...
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Why is context-menu copy greyed out in terminal (12.04 x64)?
I used to be able to mouse select text in a terminal window, right click it, select copy, then paste it into Gedit or whatever.
But in recent months that 'copy' option has been greyed out. I can't ...
