Questions tagged [virtual-console]
Virtual consoles reachable with Ctrl+Alt+F1-F6
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Ctrl-Alt-Fx doesn't work: Getty / VT vs X session bug (18.04)
I've run into problems with virtual terminals.
I boot up, log in via VT, startx.
Next, I'm going to another VT (e.g. ctrl+alt+f2), login there too, and exit that vt (tty2).
What happens next is ...
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Enabling virtual consoles in Ubuntu 18.04
I have used the virtual consoles (tty1-6) for decades in various Linuxes. I recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) on an x86-64 box. Everything is fine, except that the VCs don't work. As ...
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Hard disk locked
I have a problem, mi external hard disk is locked. Someone knows how to solve this problem. When I try to access it by inserting the password, an error message appears. It says: 'Error unlocking, ...
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What are the steps towards having a tty with at most 200 chars per line at 4K resolution?
My new laptop has a 4K screen. There are no bitmap fonts large enough to achieve 200 chars per line or less. More than 200 chars per line are just too tiny to read for me. I wouldn't like to change ...
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Extract content of (corrupted?) .ova file
I have VirtualBox on my laptop and a .ova file which is a Ubuntu VM (Ubuntu 18.04) from another laptop. I want to import this .ova file into VirtualBox but I get the following error:
Could not find ...
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How to copy root file system in Ubuntu
I want to copy my Ubuntu's root file system into another folder (perhaps /home/rootfs). I am not trying to copy /, which is the root file directory, but am trying to copy the root file system. Does ...
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Root shell on VT 9
When I switch to VT 9 by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F9 I get a root shell by default without a password prompt. How can I change it to demand a password before giving root shell access? I am using Ubuntu 16.04 ...
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Starting a different X session on tty8 fails
I have two users on my computer (ubuntu linux 16.04) and I want to be able to have them both logged in at the same time on different virtual consoles.
I have followed instructions here but the ...
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How to have script detect if terminal emulator is running in a desktop session or not?
I have scripts I run that write out a text file, then open it in an editor. If I open a terminal emulator window in my desktop session and run the script, I'd like the editor to be a graphical one ...
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Access terminal from login screen on Ubuntu 18.04
I would like to open the terminal from the login screen. In previous Ubuntu releases I just used Ctrl+Alt+F1. However, when I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 in 18.04, nothing happens, the login screen just stays ...
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Clickable link + popup menu
Is it possible to have a clickable link, in my PS1, that opens a pop-up menu or something similar?
My scenario
I've personalized my .bashrc, to show my PS1 as
user@machine: path #/$
and if I'm ...
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Why is /etc/init/tty?.conf ignored in Ubuntu 16.04?
When using Ubuntu 14.04, I used to have a custom /etc/init/tty2.conf that started a program in this virtual terminal. But after upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04, these files seem to be ignored. Regardless of ...
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What is the best way to install Ubuntu on cloud
I am currently using Ubuntu 17.10 using Oracle VirtualBox on USB as hard disk.
Would like to know if it is possible to install Ubuntu on cloud for personal use and will it be faster compared to ...
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How can I record the screen (or screencast) in text mode?
Basically I want to capture the process of installing a driver in Ubuntu so I can watch it later.
There are screen capture applications such as SimpleScreenRecorder, but they won't work in text mode ...
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Error while installing powerline
I recently installed powerline for bash and it seems to work fine but it made my terminal to load very slow. But when my main concern is when i go to my console pressing CTRL + ALT + F1 it shows some ...
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How can I distinguish a terminal window (GUI) from a console (CTRL+ALT+F3)?
I use a coloured bash prompt like so:
blue=$(tput setaf 4)
reset=$(tput sgr0)
bold=$(tput bold)
export PS1='($?) \[$bold$blue\]\u@\h:\w\[$reset\]$(__git_ps1)> '
I usually work in a terminal ...
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Virtual Terminal auto-types Ctrl+2 (^@)
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04. I'm trying to install Nvidia drivers so I'm opening the virtual terminal using Ctrl+Alt+F1 (or any F1 to F6 key).
The problem is that when the terminal opens it will keep ...
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I'm getting a typed character every second or so on the console in Server 17.10
I tried to install Server 17.10 on my machine. As soon as the login prompt appeared, I started getting a character typed approximately once a second, even with no keyboard attached to the server. Each ...
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Ctrl+Alt+F-keys do not respond after having gone in the loginless virtual console
Situation
I am working with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. My computer was (and is) running a several-day long task launched from a terminal in the desktop environment. I then sent it to the background and ...
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standard and custom keyboard shortcut for terminal not working, every other shortcut continues to work. Ubuntu 17.10 w/ GNOME
I like to use super + t to open up a terminal. I set that in the keyboard shortcuts setting to open a terminal. It works immediately after I set it, but after some time, or a logout it stops working....
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screen: I start two screens, but there is only one?
After doing
screen -S foo
screen -S bar
screen -ls
I see two screens: 1234.foo and 5678.bar (both Attached).
How can they be both attached, as I'm only in one at a time? (Presumably the last one I ...
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How to switch between console mode and GUI in 17.10 in X.Org mode? [duplicate]
This is related to this question about How to switch between console mode and GUI in 17.10?. I tried the highly-upvoted answer, which sounds like it is correct, but it does not work for me.
I am ...
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How do I switch between console mode and GUI in 17.10 and newer?
After upgrading to 17.10 like a true pioneer, I found the old CtrlAltF1 no longer switches between console mode and GUI, and a quick Google search brought up nothing useful. Was this feature removed ...
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How to switch back to graphical vt
In Ubuntu 17.04 I can easily press Alt-Ctrl and f1 to f6 to switch between the virtual terminals in text mode, but the usual Alt-Ctrl f7 (or any of the other f keys) does not take be back to the ...
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fix virtual consols fires with A:T+Fx (without CTRL)
When I press ALT+any Fx (x in range of 1..7) keys fresh install Ubuntu Gnome 17.04 switches virtual console, and when I return to GUI it executes repetive ALT+Fn command. For example if I press Alt+F4 ...
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Error while using graphics.h
I have visited this site
to know how to use graphics.h
But I am getting an error while using
sudo apt-get install libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-image1.2-dev guile-1.8 \
guile-1.8-dev libsdl1.2debian ...
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How to programmatically trigger Ctrl+Alt+F1 without sudo? [duplicate]
I was looking for a command which will allow me to trigger Ctrl + Alt + F1. This is so that I can invoke the command from the Alarm Clock app, which will ensure that I "notice" the alarm. I usually ...
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Can't get startx to work 'Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console'
this is what I get when I try to:
ubuntu@ip-172-31-25-76:~$ startx
xauth: file /home/ubuntu/.Xauthority does not exist
X.Org X Server 1.18.4
Release Date: 2016-07-19
X Protocol Version 11, ...
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17.04 freezes on restart, shutdown, and virtual terminal
I first noticed the issue when I tried to shutdown or restart my laptop. However when I tried to apply a fix using a virtual console it completely froze. It still displays the desktop but the mouse is ...
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Prevent extraneous formatting of apt output
When using apt from "dumb" terminal (this is a code word for Emacs), it produces many lines of garbage output (it probably tries to display progress, but it doesn't work on this kind of terminal).
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how to recover from a freeze without rebooting? [duplicate]
What alternatives are there to REISUB for dealing with system problems? The windows task manager has its good points in this regard. Or, key combination to logout. It's not always possible to get ...
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How to paste in a console by using gpm and a touchpad
I would like to use gpm and my touchpad in a console. However, I don’t know how to simulate a middle click for pasting. I am trying to start gpm in two button mode - “-2 Force two buttons. This ...
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can't leave virtual console
I opened a virtual console with Ctrl+Alt:F3 and now can't get back to the regular X display with Ctrl+Alt:F7.
The screen is black, the fan is going, the power is on. The light on my mouse doesn't ...
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Virtual machine does not show Graphical user interface
I have a VM running ubuntu 16.04 desktop version. I am able to access the vm from my host machine through a terminal, but however i cannot access the desktop version (graphical). The screen appears ...
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What's the RGB values for Ubuntu's default terminal (Unity)?
I'm running Windows Subsystem for Linux and the color in Windows console is bad. I like the color palette in Ubuntu 16.04 very much. I've already known how to change the colors in a Windows console, ...
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Command to switch to tty1?
I want to make a list of commands to install everything so it's easier the next time I do it, however, I wanted one of the commands to do CTRL+ALT+F1 for me.
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Keep session on while in virtual terminal
I like to use a virtual console (accessed by CTRL + ALT + F<1;6>) for sys configuration and management on my laptop.
After returning to a KDE session (the one with GUI - no idea how do you call it :...
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How can I make Yakuake/Guake to show the right margin vertical line?
I work with some projects which requires data to be exact lenght, let's say: 120 characters.
Some editors, like gedit provides such functionality which allows you to visually have a limit where to ...
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enable ctrl+alt+F1 virtual consoles in ubuntu gnome
In previous versions of Ubuntu, CtrlAltF1 through F6 opened up virtual consoles. On Ubuntu Gnome 17.04 CtrlAltF1 opens another GUI and the others do nothing. How do I restore the old behavior?
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Libvirt: virsh console - no response
Issue
I have Ubuntu 16 as the host running Ubuntu 14 as a guest (kvm).
I installed the VM using virt-install
All settings and configuration seems fine
# virsh list
Id Name State
---------------...
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Change Geany Terminal keybindings
I would like to change the keybindings used in the vte terminal window in geany. For example, I would like to replace the current paste in terminal (ctrl-shift-v) by ctrl-v. How can that be done?
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Displaying Hebrew in virtual console [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu server 16.10, XTerm and Emacs display Hebrew and Arabic script fine.
When used from within the X windowing system, the virtual console itself, that is not the terminal emulator, ...
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Why can I not use the virtual consoles on Ubuntu 16.04?
I'm currently unable to use any of my virtual terminals on Ubuntu 16.04 (the ASCII consoles accessible with CTRL+ALT+F[1-6] or chvt; that is, /dev/tty[1-6]), but only intermittently. When I first boot ...
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Alt+Left and Right arrow keys change from GUI to console
I'm using Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 and recently I noticed that by pressing Alt+Left changes from the GUI to the tty.
I use that shortcut regularly and this behavior interferes with my workflow.
How can I ...
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Alt + F keys always switches to virtual terminal on Ubuntu 16.04.2 [closed]
As of recently something has changed the behavior of Alt on my system. I am running Ubuntu Gnome 16.04.2 LTS. When I press for example Alt + F4, the system opens the 4-th virtual terminal and only ...
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How do I change rxvt colors to white on black?
By default, on Ubuntu, rxvt terminal is black on white. How do I change it to white on black?
I'm running Lubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Virtual consoles (tty1-tty6) not working on Ubuntu 16.04
Mostly, when I open more than 1 instances of Android Studio, somethings must be getting swapped onto the SWAP memory.
Virtual consoles show erratic behavior when swap is used.
The tty1 to tty6 ...
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I need to add a new route (terminal) and have my c++ server go through it
I am on a Ubuntu VM version 16.04.
I need to add a new route in terminal and have my c++ server application go through it.
I tried figuring this out, but I'm a beginner and am having trouble.
I ...
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Shutting down the system using a virtual console
My computer is freezing from time to time. It's because I make few mistakes and I ruined my system. I don't have any time to reinstall the system now.
While my PC is frozen, it still works when I ...
