Questions tagged [gnome-terminal]
GNOME Terminal (often titled only "Terminal") is the default terminal emulator included in Ubuntu.
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Terminal 'incognito mode'?
I use Terminal a lot, and sometimes I am running commands, which aren't things I don't want others to see, but more commands that if I accidentally arrowed up to and accidentally executed would cause ...
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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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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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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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Command to open new tab in the current terminal
Is it possible to open a new tab in the current terminal with some commands?
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How to efficiently switch between several terminal windows using the keyboard?
Alt+Tab lets me only switch between windows belonging to different applications.
I often use about four terminal bound applications at the same time (e.g. IPython, VIM, fish for system and fish for ...
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Some fast way to save and restore tabs of Terminal?
I have a Terminal window with a dozen named tabs open.
I would like to save the current configuration and have it restored with names and directories.
Is there a way to do this?
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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 my ...
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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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How to show gnome-terminal menubar?
I accidentally unchecked View -> Show Menubar which hides the menubar for gnome-terminal, and there doesn't appear to be a keyboard shortcut to show the menubar again.
How can I make gnome-terminal ...
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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
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Color
background
font < (its mono if you ...
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Selecting text in the terminal without using the mouse
I am about to press enter to run a command in terminal, but before doing that, I want to copy the command to clipboard without using the mouse.
How?
If you're somewhere other than the terminal, Ctrl+...
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Shortcut to clear command line terminal [duplicate]
Is there a shortcut to clear the command line when typing in it instead of keeping backspace pressed for a few long seconds?
I ask because I regularly use the Tab key to automatically fill in file ...
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A terminal which provides select-to-copy and right-click-to-paste
In putty/cygwin my config is:
select in console -> copies to clipboard
right click -> pastes from clipboard.
Was after a terminal in Linux which might provide me with both of these features? I ...
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Keyboard shortcut for pasting on the GNOME Terminal
We use Ctrl+V to paste stuff from clipboard, but this is not working on terminal window.
What is the keyboard shortcut to paste on the GNOME terminal?
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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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Command to open new terminal window from the current terminal?
I installed xdotool by running sudo apt-get install xdotool and throw xdotool key ctrl+alt+t command to open a new terminal window from the current one.But it was not working.
What was the command ...
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How to see the details which Ubuntu shows at the time of login anytime?
When I login to my ubuntu system, it show me this this message, How can I see it any time? I tried to run . .bashrc but it didn't worked.
Welcome to Ubuntu 12.10 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-24-virtual ...
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How to display more than 1 terminal simultaneously
Sometimes when I work, I use more than one terminal and I find it inconvenient to switch between them when all of them were invoked using Ctrl+Alt+T. Is there any program or terminal that after ...
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Change default width of gnome-terminal and terminator windows
Only a short question but is it possible to set the default width (and height) of terminal sessions in gnome-terminal and terminator?
I find I always resize the window once it pops up so and given ...
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Better terminal for Ubuntu?
Please suggest a terminal application for Ubuntu desktop which meets the following requirements:
Paste via Right Mouse Click (without showing the context menu)
Copy via Mouse selection.
Solarized ...
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Open another terminal window with the same SSH session as original window
Is there a way to open a terminal window ( or tab ) with another instance of an open SSH session ?
EDIT: I have a terminal window with a remote ssh session into a server. I want to open a new tab ...
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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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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 hand,...
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Increase padding in gnome terminal
I'd like to increase the padding in the gnome terminal, because the default has no padding and hurts my eyes.
Padding as in: I want space between the window border and where the text input/output is ...
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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?
EDIT for the future: most of the answers were upvoted ...
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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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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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How do I check which terminal I am using?
I have Ubuntu on my machine and I am running awesome window manager on top of it. How do I check which terminal I am running? Is there a command for it?
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How to show a running clock in terminal before the command prompt
I prefer to use terminal and spend most of the time using it. I am searching a way to see time in terminal while I use it parallel. The time would change automatically when it passes. It would be ...
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Gnome terminal will not start
I just tried to install python 3.6 on my Ubuntu 16.04 system, and now I can't run the terminal from the launcher or from Ctrl + Alt + T. I tried to run gnome-terminal from XTerm and got the following ...
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Save current terminal scrollback to file?
I have been looking for an answer to this and not finding anything which makes me think it's not possible but ...
Is it possible to save the current Gnome Terminal scrollback buffer to a file?
I ...
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Ubuntu 18 terminal not opening
I just installed Ubuntu 18 on my desktop PC alongside Windows 10 and have been using Ubuntu without any problems for a couple of days. Today, when I booted up my computer, I am no longer able to open ...
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Use emoji inside terminal
OS X has emoji support inside terminal, and I'm a little jelly.
Emoji One Color SVGinOT Font brings emoji support to Ubuntu, but at the moment the terminal will only render monochrome emojis.
Is ...
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How to run Terminal as root?
When we want to run a programs as root we use sudo, gksu, gksudo and etc. Now my question is how do we can run a Terminal as the root user in Terminal?
I tried with using gksudo terminal and gksu ...
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input delay on Terminal Ubuntu 22.04.4
I have been using Ubuntu since Christmas, and just recently I have been receiving delayed input while using the Ubuntu terminal. It especially takes affect when using vim or man commands, which is ...
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What terminal emulators are available for heavy terminal users?
I spend a lot of time at the command-line during the workday and at home too since I run Ubuntu exclusively.
I've been using the default gnome terminal but I've reached a point where I'd really like ...
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How to kill htop if I can't use F10?
I use htop in a terminal but I can't close it with F10. F10 seems to just open a program's File dialog. Is there a way to disable it so I can close htop normally?
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How to open a folder in Ubuntu default file manager via terminal?
I am using Ubuntu.
From my terminal, how can I open my OS default file manager on a certain folder (e.g. on a folder that I view at current directory)?
say I change my current directory to:
cd /root/...
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Run command on another(new) terminal window
How to run any command in another terminal window?
Example: I opened one terminal window and if I run command like apropos editor, then it run and out-puts on that window. But I want to run same ...
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Steam doesn't open on Ubuntu 17.10
Steam does not open at all when i open it from search, and in the terminal it says
Repairing installation, linking /home/xyz/.steam/steam to /home/xyz/.local/share/Steam
Running Steam on ubuntu 17.10 ...
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Can not paste into Gnome Terminal from Netbeans
When I copy something from another window then my terminal and want to paste it into my terminal (on the command line) the paste option in Edit is grayed out. Ctrl+V does not work in GNOME Terminal 2....
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How to change the background color of terminal emulator background?
How to change the dark purple color of terminal emulator background?
And can we place any image or photo instead of that purple color.
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Is it possible to open a terminal in the current directory?
I am new to Ubuntu, and was wondering whether it is posible to open a terminal with a path matching your current location in the file manager? In Windows it was very easy, but how do you do it in ...
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How to switch between tabs opened in gnome-terminal and also close any particular tab using shortcut key?
I can open as many terminal tabs I want using Ctrl++Shift+T.
But for some reason, I'm not able to switch the tabs using Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDown. So what is the shortcut-key to switch in between ...
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`Read-only file system` error using tab completion, and terminal window closing randomly
First is simply an oddity with the command cd. If I type in cd, then a space, then press Tab to view the available directories, I get this error message:
bash: cannot create temp file for here-...
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How do I reset the colors of my terminal?
Help! Somehow my terminal looks like this:
It's nearly impossible to read the text. How can I fix it without exiting the terminal?
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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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Is there an alternative to gnome-terminal?
Are there any terminals that can serve as an alternative to gnome-terminal. Do these alternatives have other/extra features ?
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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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