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Why do I have no prompt in terminal on XFCE in ubuntu 12.04
I have Ubuntu 12.04 and have tried a few desktop environments. I am currently testing out Xfce. It has a terminal emulator called "Terminal". When I launch it, I just get a black screen.
Xterm, ...
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Terminal stops working after closing a program window started from the Terminal
System: I have XUbuntu 12.04 64bit and run Terminal 0.4.8 (Xfce Terminal Emulator).
Problem: My Terminal always stops to accept any input after I close a program window started from the Terminal.
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How to turn off monitor by hotkeys?
I am using xfce desktop in ubuntu 12.04 and added the shortcut keys in order to turn off my monitor.
The command "xset dpms force off" works fine in terminal.
But when it added in the keyboard ...
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How do I increase the terminal border size in xfce?
The terminal (and other applications) borders seem to be only 1 pixel wide which makes them almost impossible to click. I am aware that alt+right click has the same function, but I need the borders ...
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What is the gnome-open analog on XFCE desktop?
In Gnome, there's a handy command line utility gnome-open, that opens a specified file the same way it would be opened by the double click. Is there anything similar for XFCE?
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Is there a shell-independent HUD-like menu search tool for GNOME?
The Ubuntu HUD - you love it or you hate it. Personally I rather like a classic desktop, so I use Xfce and Cinnamon, and I don't want to lose my menu in applications.
But the HUD is pretty awesome ...
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Switch back to pseudo-transparency?
First off, I realize that what I'm hoping to get is not the expected behavior.
On my older desktop, I have the following set up: Ubuntu 10.04. Xfce running (installed after the fact). I use the ...
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Modify xfce startup applications
Normally I like it when a terminal window pops up immediately after startup, since I'm a heavy CLI user in linux. However, my preference is to have the terminal maximized, particularly on my laptop, ...
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Remove titlebar from maximized terminal window
I'm using XFCE on 10.10 and this is just one of those "is this even possible" type questions.
When I have the terminal maximized, is it possible to remove the titlebar, including the close, minimize ...
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How to set up transparent background in XFCE terminal?
I can't find the option to make the terminal background transparent :-( Any idea where can it be?
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XFCE shortcut problem
Every time, when i hit k button in a terminal window in vim, so it happens fairly often, it invokes the Find pop-up. I could not find where this can be turned off.
I do not have this problem at home ...
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Command to activate (either run or bring to front if already running) a program
I want to be able to have a keyboard short-cut to either start or bring to the front a program. (sqldeveloper if it matters)
I know how to run it, that leaves:
1) how do I find out if a program is ...
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xfce4-terminal is broken
Why can't Canonical warn at http://xubuntu.org/ that the official release has the Terminal broken (environment variable TERM=dumb) and people are strongly recommended to run apt-get dist-upgrade at ...
