A terminal is a hardware device used for entering data into and displaying information from a computer. Terminals were frequently used in the days of mainframe computers. Today, most operating systems offer text-based "terminal emulators", which replicate the functionality of a classical terminal, ...
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How to make emacsclient uses differnt themes in terminal and X window?
Sometimes I use emacsclient -t -a '' in xterm, and sometimes I use emacsclient -c as a GUI application. What annoys me is that the font settings and color-theme are initialized when emacs server ...
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Terminal inside sublime text
A long time ago when I used gedit, I was able to have a built in terminal at the bottom. This allowed me to sftp into my server, edit code, and then compile it in the terminal right inside the ...
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BASH Completion: Ignore repeated?
I have a bad habit of pressing TAB too many times when using the terminal. If whatever bash completion routine invoked is particularly slow, this causes a huge wait while the terminal shows me the ...
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Enabling Italics, Underline on Emacs, Xterm and Putty
I'm using a Ubuntu (11.04 Server Edition) virtual machine as my development environment. It doesn't have a desktop environment since I don't think its necessary and I want to keep it lightweight. I'm ...
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OS X or X11 terminal emulator supporting proportional fonts
Does anybody know of a terminal emulator for Mac OS X (preferably native, otherwise for X11) supporting proportional fonts?
I've gotten used to programming in a proportional font, specifically ...
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tmux - how-to enable automatic switching from 80 to 132 columns and back
Currently in our terminal based accounting system, clients mostly use putty (0.61) and when a report is viewed in the terminal, an escape code is issued that kicks the screen from 80 to 132 columns if ...
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scp no such file
I'm on mac osx getting a file from a remote server. I run the following command:
scp remoteusername@remotehostip:/home/username/file.tar ./Users/localusername/Documents/specialdir
I get the ...
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Why does this line appear every time I launch iTerm on my MacBook?
So I use iTerm on my MacBook Air and also my MacBook Pro. I've been playing around with .bashrc and .bash_profile and trying to come up with clever ways to configure things. At one point I decided I ...
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How do I install an icon with an underscore in its name with xgd-menu?
The image file is here, named it 'An_Icon.png' and saved it to ~/Desktop . I used the following commands to install it to my menus:
xdg-desktop-icon install --novendor ...
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Mac OS X Lion Terminal SSH connection sharing error
I sometimes get this error when I try to ssh to a remote host:
mux_client_request_session: read from master failed: Broken pipe
I'm using Macbook Air OS X Lion with this in ~/.ssh/config:
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gnome-terminal - color palette
I'm trying to assign color palette on my gnome-terminal but it doesn't change at all... any clue?
Screenshot > http://i.imgur.com/MXXhoOo.jpg
Aditional info:
Fedora 18 64bits (shiny new)
GNOME ...
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LXTerminal shortcuts work but also output to console
I installed a netinst of Debian 6, xorg, lxde and lxterminal.
When I press Ctrl+Shift+T in the terminal, I get a new tab as expected, but the new tab also displays ^T before the prompt. The same for ...
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Terminal without echo
In the terminal on Solaris 5.9 (ksh), I don't see the characters when typing. I can see the input only after the return key is pressed.
I checked terminal settings with stty -a it shows:
echo echoe ...
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Centos 6.3 doesn't detect USB drives
Unable to locate its file.
In the terminal fdisk -l didn't give the expected result. I tried mounting the device using 'mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb' but it says mount requires the 'type of device'.
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Linux Mint Mate - Make the terminal icon on the Start Menu launch gnome-terminal rather than Mate terminal
I was having some issues with the Mate terminal in Linux Mint (see How to reset system colors) so have started using gnome-terminal instead. I'd like the change the "Terminal" icon which is on the ...
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Installed new version of php but server still uses older version
I just upgraded to PHP 5.4.11 from 5.3.15 following this link. After upgrading I ran php -v but it shows me following output.
Zafars-MacBook-Pro:php-5.4.11 zafar$ php -v
PHP 5.3.15 with Suhosin-Patch ...
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Grey Screen when launching Debian 6 through Chicken
I'm trying to connect my mac to my Debian 6 VPS, but I only get a gray screen, as shown in the screenshot below.
I followed the steps on this tutorial recommended by the VPS company.
I'm using ...
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How to change keymap on native console?
When I'm switching to native console with Ctrl+Alt+Fn I have wrong keyboard maping. I want to set keymap proper to my language. In KDE, web browser, konsole etc. everything is OK.
So, how to change ...
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Screen divider / border width and color
In GNU screen, using a horizontal / vertical split, how do you set the color and width of the divider between the splits? I want to make them thin and darker so they don't stand out as much.
There is ...
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Weird rendering artefact in vim (terminal, not MacVim)
Running Mac OS X, using either Terminal.app or iTerm2, there is a strange artefact with the character rendering that I have a hard time explaining and an even harder time understanding. I'll start ...
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overlining support in terminal
when I enter printf "\e[4m%s\e[0m\n" TESTING into iterm or osx terminal, testing returns underlined.
Are there any terminals (mac or linux) that would support printf "\e[53m%s\e[0m\n" TESTING?
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How to Connect internet through wifi from terminal in Ubuntu 12.04?
I had recently installed ubuntu sever 12.04 on my Lenovo laptop. As a first task i was tying to connect to wifi through it. Since there is no GUI the task is to be done through terminal. I was ...
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How to use XAMPP on Ubuntu?
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 today and I would like to use XAMPP on this OS.
I downloaded the installation file, extracted that in Opt directory and tried to start it from the terminal. It started fine ...
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How do I correctly rebind select-pane commands in tmux?
By default, tmux seems to be using
C-b, Left to move left a pane
C-b, Right to move right pane
...
I want to use
C-b, h to move left a pane
C-b, l to move right a pane
...
Here's my current ...
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Ctrl-C does not work in tmux window
I have a Mini2440 ARM Board, and I have put a base Debian 6.0 system on it using multistrap.
I have used tmux to run several processes in defferent windows from /etc/rc.local. I connect to the board ...
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Encoding over SSH Issues
I have a Linux machine and a Windows machine, both using Vim with the Powerline plugin. They both work great with patched fonts. Next, I want to SSH onto an OSX 10.6 machine and also use the Powerline ...
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Is there a way to store certain shortcut variables in iTerm or Terminal.app so that we can access them from any remote machine ?
I use alias for setting up shortcuts so that i need not type out often lengthy directory paths and such. But i ssh into multiple machines often and i cannot alias a bunch of stuff into all the remote ...
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Run mono application without terminal window?
Is it possible to run a mono application without having the terminal window open? I am trying to run KeePass 2.1.9 using mono on OS X Lion, and it does run fine. The problem is that it has the ...
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gnome-terminal new tab within exact same path
I'm using gnome-terminal and open multiple tabs for the same path. The behavior of gnome-terminal is to change to the real (canonical) path rather than the exact original path.
E.g. a new tab opened ...
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Where shared folders are located on MAC OS X Lion?
On Snow Leopard there is a file named /var/db/samba/smb.shares where listed all shared folders.
Does anyone know, where that file is located on MAC OS X Lion? Thanks
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How to mount SMB share from terminal using keychain?
I need to be able mount a SMB share from terminal, for MAC OS versions (10.7). Is there a way to use mount_smbfs with keychain so I don't get prompt the username/password or have to add it to the ...
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Setup mutt to read through a threaded message and then return to the email index
I have begun using mutt (terminal email client) recently and I have it setup very nicely and easy to use. My only gripe is that sometimes it is difficult to tell when I transition from one thread to ...
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Why does OS X Lion's terminal treat the PS1 prompt codes differently than Snow Leopard?
I get different behaviors in terminal with the same prompt definition in Snow Leopard and Lion.
On my Snow Leopard system, I define my terminal prompt in .profile as follows:
export ...
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Running terminal commands from Chrome's Omnibar
I would like to use Google Chrome's Omnibar to execute terminal commands.
Is there any way to do that?
Edit:
I found that I could add a custom search engine as "terminal://%s". However, there seems ...
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Creating a shortcut in launcher to run a terminal command with more than one parameter as argument
How do you create a shortcut in launcher that lets you run a terminal command using more than one variable?
For example, how do you create a launcher shortcut that will prompt you for varA and varB ...
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256-colour terminal
I've been battling it out with this 256-colour terminal malarkey and I just can't get decent colour displays in a terminal. I'm using ubuntu-server with openssh and zsh. I have tried accessing the ...
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Copy the output of the last command in Terminal.app
!! | pbcopy would also run the commands again and couldn't be used with interactive commands.
This relies on the prompt always being $ :
tell application "Terminal" to tell window 1 to history
do ...
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How to display a framebuffer and some stdout text
So I have this program that writes to the framebuffer in Ubuntu. It works beautifully: I enter the system terminal using ⇧+CTRL+F1, then start the program, and it starts writing to the framebuffer and ...
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How do I set the meta key with the meta convert feature in most *nix terminals?
.Xdefaults:
xterm*eightBitInput: false
This command apparently allows you to use a meta key + something to enter vi editing mode in a linux terminal. But what is the meta key and how do you set the ...
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Financial and real-time market-data software for the command line
I can easily build HUDs at command prompts for stuff like the weather, my to-dos, Twitter, IRC, etcetera; but the one thing I’m always stuck going to my iPhone or browser for, constantly, is real-time ...
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Gem procress as Terminal title
I run Snow Leopard and I use the Terminal for Rails development.
If you do web development, you would realize that regardless of the gems being run, your terminal name switches from bash to ruby.
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Command prompt hangs until keypress?
Problem:
For some reason once in a while my command prompt would hang until I press a random key, and it would continue operation as if nothing happened.
Occurrence:
This happens when I am running ...
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Mac Terminal to assign keystrokes to mouse clicks?
Are there Mac Terminal commands to assign keystrokes to mouse clicks?
The aim here is simple. I have a generic three-button mouse for which there's no customizing driver available, and I want it to ...
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Issues with RVM and new terminal instances
So I started having issues with my terminal sessions for some reason that I'm not fully aware of how to fix. This is the terminal output that I get when I start up any new session now. RVM doesn't ...
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remove dir with files not working
I'm trying to remove this directory pear from my tmp folder, but it's not letting me.
I tried
sudo rm -r pear
But then it asks me to override, and I put y and it says Permission denied. Any ideas ...
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locating a screen session within multiple desktops
I've usually got a lot of stuff on the go, including 10 or more screen sessions. I also have a lot of desktops set up. Sometimes I want to find a particular screen session among the many desktops. ...
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Close a specific Chrome tab in Ubuntu/Linux using terminal command
Is there a way to close a specific Chrome tab with a terminal command? I tried below commands:
kill -9 <pid of Chrome tab>: Instead of closing a tab, it kills the tab ("He's dead Jim" message ...
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How did Linux get on sdc when I insalled it on sdb
I typed $fdisk -l into the terminal to see my partitions.
When I installed Linux I installed it on sdb, which shows up, but for some reason it says Linux under sdc.
This is what it looks like.
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How to disable EMACS - Prelude colors? (terminal)
I've used PRELUDE to work better in terminal, but I'd love to work with my default Terminal theme(colors).
Zenburn-theme comes default with Prelude but It just work great the first time i run emacs ...
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Alert Terminal window when EKG2 receives message
When using EKG2 with the ncurses ui, the terminal window does not receive an alert when I recieve a message. Is it possible to configure EKG2 so it does this?
