Questions tagged [gnome-terminal]
GNOME Terminal (often titled only "Terminal") is the default terminal emulator included in Ubuntu.
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How to make terminal sushi a file with focus on it?
I plan to use sushi as my preview application in Zotero(A famous open source research assistant), it is similar to run a command which is “sushi FILENAME” in shell. it turn out that the preview window ...
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What is the safest and most efficient way to remove multiple applications installed by 'sudo apt install gnome-*'?
I Accidentally ran sudo apt install gnome-* in terminal and a lot of applications were installed in my system. I would like to know if there is a way to get rid of all those apps that were installed ...
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Linux terminal not working; no file paths are showing with no response to keyboard inputs
My terminal in Ubuntu is not working, it is not responding to keyboard nor does it shows any file paths as well. This issue is reflected is in the VS Code terminal as well.
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Why does Gnome terminal only give access to SSH keys in the first tab of a window?
My SSH setup works pretty easy in XFCE4-terminal: the first time trying to log in to a server (from any terminal), Gnome-keyring asks for the passphrase for the corresponding ssh key in a popup window,...
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Why does the tree command print NBSP on Ubuntu 22.04
I installed tree v 2.0.2 and in the terminal it displays the output properly but when I send to output to a .txt file it includes a bunch of NBSP ruining the display. It also happens when copying the ...
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anyone know how to rebrand ubuntu 23.04 with the budgie DE in cubic?
I need help rebranding and changing the ubuntu name, and logo across the whole system on cubic, yet I can't seem to find the commands to rebrand everything. If anyone knows them, please send.
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Terminal getting opened along with GUI Application
I have GUI application created using GTK in linux. Now if I launch the application by clicking on the icon or by using xdg-open file.myextension, an empty terminal gets opened along with the ...
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Ctrl+alt+T doesn't work to open terminal window
Ctrl+alt+T doesn't work to open terminal window.
When I do it, the following error is shown in the syslog:
May 8 12:33:37 ubuntu gsd-media-keys[3570]: Could not launch ' %f': Text was empty (or ...
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Setting the color for warnings from journalctl output
The journalctl command will color-code its messages. From its manual page:
When outputting to a tty, lines are colored according to priority: lines of level ERROR and higher are colored red; lines of ...
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Applications headbar is acting weird and changing color
Recently a few of my applications got their top bars acting weird. I thought that it only happened to my terminal, but turned out there were more. GNOME Terminal, LibreOffice, Task Manager, and ...
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Cannot open the terminal via Ctrl + Alt + t
Since I have booted my pc today with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS I have experienced some issues.
First, my settings have disappeared, meaning the app and the icon on the top right where "wired connection&...
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i can not type in terminal
When I open the terminal, the window appears without the ability to write. I cannot type, and I also do not see the directory.
you can see the screenshot from this link:
terminal
I have already tried ...
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Close button of terminal showing this way
Suddenly my terminal started showing wrong symbols 🚫 🚫 instead of close, maximize and minimize buttons. Software Updater is not opening. The right corner is blank. The buttons are there, but they're ...
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How to disable private browsing for firefox and google on Linux
Already tried /usr/lib/firefox/distribution. Would not allow. Tried mkdir distribution because it said I already had firefox. It then made a distribution folder. Entered sudo touch policies.json ...
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Terminal Doesn't Open After Install
I recently followed the steps here to install Ubuntu Desktop virtual machine using VirtualBox 7 using the Unattended Guest OS Install feature with the Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS image. Once I start the VM for ...
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Gnome terminal won't open except from file explorer
When I try to open the terminal from the favorites bar it shows that it's loading but never opens. The good news is that it opens from the file explorer "Open in Terminal".
I recently ...
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gnome terminal crash and silent exit - running python3/nvidia RAPIDS 22.04
I'm running a python program (machine learning training) under conda on 22.04 that uses RAPIDS GPU - in the middle of a large run it sometimes completely silently exists and kills the tmux and gnome ...
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Gnome Terminal not displaying correctly in 22.04
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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Opening gnome-terminal and running a command that uses environmental variables from .bashrc
I am making a .sh file that would be run by Right click -> Run as program by non-power-users. It should open a terminal window and run a docker run command, that uses some environmental variables.
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Backspace not working as expected on Alacritty
I just installed Alacritty through the app store on top of zsh and oh-my-zsh, I had it before on a previous installation of Ubuntu without any zsh related stuff where everything was fine.
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Can't open terminal on startup
I read some article how to fix ubuntu login loop, first step it said to open terminal by pressing ctrl+alt+f3 but i seems can't to open it only show "_" and it blinking.
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After updating my terminal it's showing bash 5.2. what should i do?
After updating my terminal it's showing bash 5.2 on my terminal. new user like me going to confuse. bash 5.2 "cd downlode there is no
such file like this"
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Terminal freezes
I having a problem with my terminal. The terminal is not taking any keyboard input and just opens and stays in this state.
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How do I script changing the color scheme in gnome-terminal?
How do I script changing from the light mode to the dark mode?
In it GUI I do this:
preferences>profiles>Unnamed>Colors>Bultin-in schemes (here I choose either black-on-white or white-on-...
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Opening terminal by default in home directory does not work
I am using Ubuntu 22.04. The terminal that it opens from desktop context menu is the gnome-terminal. By default it opens it on the ~/Desktop directory. I want to modify the default directory without ...
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Copying file path from GUI to the command line (another question)
I used to get the path to some files by selecting them with the mouse and then copying and pasting them into my terminal. Howerver, this doesn't work anymore.
I realize that the subject have been ...
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how to regain control, my ubuntu 22.04 terminal no longer gives me control
My ubuntu version is 22.04.
²for some time I no longer have my hand in my ubuntu terminal.
The terminal cursor blinks as if it's a process that's running endlessly. Can you help me to solve this ...
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shift+Arrow keys print ABCD in terminal rather than doing text selection by moving the cursor
I have a fresh install of ubuntu 22.04, I had mistakenly pressed ctrl+A in terminal after that pressing shift+Arrow keys print ABCD based on the direction of arraw keys. How can I get the default ...
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Why after update, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS terminal stopped pinging websites with ip6 address?
When we ping any website with ip4 address format it is working and when the website bears an ip6 address ping is returning the IP address not resolved the error.
Earlier it was producing host not ...
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My ubuntu terminal is frozen and I can't bring it back
I installed this ng-commom and used the command script output.txt to save my terminal output to a file, but immediately after that my terminal froze. I have restarted the machine, turned off, and ...
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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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Terminal not displaying directory, commands executing instantly when pasted; arrow up ==> ^[[A [duplicate]
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS.
I created the user "dom" when I first set up Ubuntu. From then, I created another user, named "schule" that also had sudo rights. Here is how I ...
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Remote Desktop freezes when running code in terminal but not in Pycharm
I am having an extremely weird issue. Debug suggestions/fixes highly appreciated because it is preventing integration of new code into the team's workflow.
I have a deep learning pytorch code running ...
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Create .desktop launcher to start a terminal with a python virtual environment enable
Despite the similar questions/answers I can find on this forum and on others, I am not able to create a desktop launcher that start a terminal with a python environment activated.
To activate the ...
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I got an error with a dkms file
So I was trying to fix my obs studio and had a snap version installed from the store and tried installing it from the website simultaneously. When i installed its prerequisite, it started throwing and ...
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Set utf8proc or Unicode 9 in Gnome Terminal
Emojis are messing up my Neovim font widths. The github forum here: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/5149 shows a few approaches, one of which is to get a terminal application that has utf8proc ...
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My terminal tabs running scripts are being automatically closed
I have some scripts running in my server, sometimes my scripts may crash, ok that is something normal, but since a few days ago I started to see something very weird, in my terminal, I have many tabs ...
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Slow startup of gnome-terminal as root
Could anybody help me debug the following issue:
I have a menu shortcut that starts up gnome-terminal as root. The shortcut refers to the following .desktop file:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Root Terminal
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Which terminals can gnome-terminal emulate?
gnome-terminal can emulate "xterm" and "xterm-256color".
Which other terminals, as described under "/usr/share/terminfo", can gnome-terminal emulate?
Is there any way to ...
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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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Cannot edit update-manager-core even after having sudo permissions. Need it essentially in order to upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04.1 to 22.10!
/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades
I have to upgrade Ubuntu 22.04.1 to 22.10. I'm following steps to do that from this website. Step-4 of the procedure to be followed asks to edit update-manager-...
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Why does executing this shell script shut down my system?
Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Was trying to install Pycharm without using snap.
I navigated to the bin folder and then:
chmod u+x pycharm.sh
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sh pycharm.sh
My system instantly shut down within ...
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Using different dock entries for different applications launched with the same binary on Ubuntu 22.04
The Gnome desktop dock (and other similar applications) use the window's WM_CLASS property to group windows, so different windows with the same class will be grouped together under the same dock icon. ...
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Resetting Default Shortcut Keys in Ubuntu Terminal
I have installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on my VirtualBox VM and accidently messed up my terminal's shortcut key binds and now I wanted to reset it to the default settings. I found no visible option to do ...
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Custom protocol handler for Firefox can't start gnome-terminal
I want to open ssh:// links from Firefox with script that opens gnome-terminal and initiates SSH connection. Script works as intended when run manually but not if run from Firefox.
I use script found ...
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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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how to running script bash with time and date time?
i want to run script.sh with detail time.
for example i want to run script.sh at 15:20 with date 05-01-2023 , how is the command ? please help, I am confused with this problem
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Terminal minimizing whena an other window is clicked
I am running a maximized window (ROS) and in the foreground i have a compromized terminal.
What i want is to click and check boxes in the main Program (ROS), without the terminal minimizing.
How do i ...
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How can I enable firacode ligature on gnome-terminal?
I have installed firacode from sudo apt install fonts-firacode as instructed here(https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/Linux-instructions#installing-with-a-package-manager) and selected in the ...
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How to fix j key not working terminal 22.04.1
So I reinstalled ubuntu for reasons not worth mentioning and now the 'j' key does not working in terminal at all.
The only way to get the key to function is to do one of the following:
Left Shift + j ...
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