tty is a Unix command that prints on standard output file name connected to standard input. The program's name comes from teletypewriter, abbreviated "TTY".
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Why does my GUI start on tty8 and not tty7?
I can't seem to find other accounts or any information on this. All I can provide is a brief description of the situation.
I use the ttys because they are very powerful and fast, and I recently ...
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Howto start an interactive script at ubuntu startup?
Based on Ubuntu core 12.04, I have prepared a bootable DVD. After booting (to console only), I can login as a user and start a script for installation of an embedded device:
sudo install_script
In ...
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How to restart ttyusb*
I have two devices that are continuously feeding data through ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1. I have php scripts that are using this data. The problem I am running into is that sometimes the feed just kind of ...
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screen: “You are not the owner of /tmp/uscreens/USERNAME” (cygwin)
I am in the process of backing up my cygwin directory, but one thing that does not work on my copy is screen utility. There are files in the aforementioned directory that seems to link to a tty. I ...
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X on one monitor, a bare, tty terminal on another? (linux)
The graphics card on my computer has inputs for (at least) two separate monitors. I have one monitor that is high resolution, and I like using it for X (anything graphical). My other monitor, however, ...
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KDM disappears and shows TTY
After installing compat wireless drivers I started having to use TTY to log in and run startx because KDM shows for all of about 2 seconds the goes to TTY. There are two problems that I have with ...
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How to execute a command under Linux after booting without a TTY session?
I'm creating a kiosk PC at the moment and I'm wondering if this is possible:
When the PC is started and Linux Debian boots and I wonder if it's possible to start the command startx respectively xinit ...
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How to read data from USB port
I have a CANbus to USB adapter (Softing CANusb) that we are using for a project (see attached picture bellow). This device has Windows drivers and a Windows API in order to access the data in the CAN ...
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“stdin: is not a tty” message from scp
I got this message when I copy file using scp to CentOS server "stdin: is not a tty". What it means and how I make it go away? The transfer is ok.
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Android Development - Use of RealTerm or other program to directly manipulate and monitor radio/modem to debug Android Telephony [closed]
I and others are desperately trying to port Android 4/ICS/JB/CM10.1 from the LG Optimus 2X/P990 to the LG G2X/P999 cell phone but we haven't been able to get the phone's Qualcomm mdm6600 radio/modem ...
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Screen run command, detach and get output
I am trying write a script which connects and runs command on /dev/ttyUSB0 after that gets the output.
screen -d -m 'SCREEN COMMAND' -L /dev/ttyUSB0
But this does not create an output file. How ...
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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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Running Emacs on Multiple TTYs in screen
When working with EMACS over SSH, is there any way to spawn a new frame of the same emacs session on a different terminal?
In my use case, I have screen running, so I have multiple terminals, and can ...
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Run a script after killing lxsession (xorg)
I am trying to run a program automatically within a bash script after killing the LXDE session. My script consists of:
#!/bin/sh
pkill lxsession;
sh ...
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Redirect physical keyboard input to SSH
I'm having a raspberry pi running debian linux and I have an RFID reader connected to it. The RFID reader behaves like a keyboard. Every time I scan a tag it types then number of the tag and then ...
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How to display a message upon login to specific tty
In /etc/securetty I commented out tty2 and tty3:
#tty2
#tty3
This succesfully disables root login for these two terminals for root.
But is it possible to display a message such as "root login is ...
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Ubuntu 12.04: screen freezes when I open the laptop
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my lenovo G580 laptop.
When I close the laptop (goes into hyvernation mode) and open it, sometimes my screen freezes (I can still see my mouse moving, but that is ...
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Why do I appear 3 times “logged in” in macosx? (zsh and screen)
I'm using the following options in order to launch a 'screen' session when I launch Terminal.app to my OSX Mountain Lion:
**~/.zshrc relevant option**
if [[ $STY = '' ]] then screen -UxR; fi # ...
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why is there so many linux /dev/tty?
In ubuntu 10.04, if I check under /dev,
there are more than 50 ttys.
tty0, tty1, tty2....
I understand tty is a character device for console input/output.
but why is there so many of them? is it ...
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Forward second keyboard input to window and split-screen terminal and KDE
I have two keyboards (one internal and one external) and I want to split-screen Linux video output so I'll have tty on one half and X11 on second half and I want redirect input from external keyboard ...
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why most linux distro have 7 tty and make x window to tty 7 as default? [closed]
I know tty can be reduced but I don't know why Most linux distro have 7 tty(s) as a default setting.
Why choose 7 instead of 6 or 3? I had never use all 7 tty at the same time.
And, The reason for ...
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Configuration to point an X tty to a separate system?
Specifically, I have an Ubuntu 10.04 system with a headless Ubuntu 12.04 virtual machine, and I'm looking for a way to have it set up so pressing ctrl+alt+F8 will take me into another X client which ...
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How do I make Ubuntu start fbterm in the tty on startup?
When I was testing openSUSE about a week ago, I noticed that tty1 (yes, just tty1) had the openSUSE background. I want to do the same in Ubuntu.
I found a way using fbsplash. I'm not too keen on that ...
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Why are there 3 pts entries in /dev/pts when w only shows 1?
In the directory /dev/pts I see 3 pts instances as shown in the screenshot below however when I run the command w I only see 1 instance of pts. Why is that?
/dev/pts
w
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Disable Bright Colors in TTY
I've been searching for a way to disable the bright (bold) colours in a TTY (colours 8 to 15). I'd like all bright colours to use their half-bright counterparts.
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unable to switch TTY in arch linux
so im moving away from ubuntu into the realm of arch linux.
in ubuntu i was able to switch TTYs with ctrl+alt+F1/F2...etc
in arch when i attempt this, im merely dumped to a black screen with a ...
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Can I login to multiple terminals with the same user safely on Linux?
By terminals I mean the ones you can switch to using Ctrl+Alt+F1-F6.
I know I'm able to login multiple times but does this have any side-effects?
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format stdout as multicolumn text
I'm trying to take some single column data and display it in a tty as columns, much like ls does. Basically, you can think of this as trying to take the output from ls -1 and make it look like the ...
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How to get different terminals for dual monitor scheme without X
I have Ubuntu installed without X.org with two monitors(single card: vga and dvi)
Login shell is cloned for both monitors.
I there any way to have different shells(tty) for these monitors?
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less emulate a TTY to preserve piped color output
When you pipe something through less, the program usually discards color codes because it's not outputting to a TTY. So you have to add --color=always to the options for it to work.
ls -l ...
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How to start plasma-desktop from SSH-console on desktop session?
I killed KDE's plasma-desktop on a openSUSE 11.2 machine, because it was eating too much CPU. How can I restart it via SSH or another tty session? On the affected computer there is only shown a ...
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Really annoying keyboard screw up when entering sqlplus
Often when using bash I am used to using the keys ^A and ^E to go to the
beginning and end of line, and the arrow keys to move from character to
character without erasing. Every now and then, I ...
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How can I inherit my aliases and file coloring in SSH shells?
I have noticed that sometimes a shell account that I access over SSH inherits the aliases and file type coloring from my home shell.
How does this process occur? These shells are usually BASH but I ...
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How to use sudo from within Windows GUI clients bypassing tty
I need to copy files via ssh but I am getting permission denied.
How can I log as a root by windows clients such us FileZilla/WinSCP?
I try execute command:
sudo su, but I am getting error: You ...
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Establishing “SIGWINFOCUS” as a standard [closed]
As a corrolary to this question, which I've been thinking about since reading it, what would it take to get something like SIGWINFOCUS established as a standard signal along with SIGWINCH? Obviously, ...
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Is there a way to alter the colors used in TTY consoles on Linux?
By "alter colors", I mean something like change black from #000000 to #111111, and by "TTY console", I mean what you get when you do Ctrl+Alt+F1 from X11, not a terminal emulator like xterm or urxvt.
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Sending change virtual console command in PuTTY
I'm trying to use PuTTY to change the virtual console on Linux via the usual key commands - Alt + F1 or Ctrl + Alt + F1 etc. However this doesn't work.
Switching TTY should be simple and is something ...
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Is there a limit to virtual console TTY's in Linux Based OS'es
The TeleType Consoles in linux can be switched by Ctrl + Alt + F(#TTY). How many such TTY's can linux have at a time? Is there even a limit?
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How to prevent a process from executing in bash
The following command has been entered:
sleep 12h; nuke-russia
It was entered on one of the Debian's ttys. I would like to cancel the sleep without nuking anything. I don't want the nuke command to ...
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Set up a Serial-to-Ethernet Converter With a Virtual Serial Port in Ubuntu
I have a '3one data' brand serial-to ethernet converter, that plugs into a serial device at one end, and allows bidirectional communications with the device over an ethernet connection, like this:
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Displaying text on /dev/tty1
I have a server laptop sitting around at home which is a pretty bland server, on which I generally leave the lid open and there is a login prompt always displayed.
However, I'd love to be able to ...
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Determining available TTY text-mode resolutions
How do you determine what text-mode resolutions are available with a graphics card? I have been using uvesafb to get higher resolutions, but framebuffer TTY display is very slow, so I'd like to try ...
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How to access Linux startup tty
I have a problem that is shown at the end of bootstrapping the kernel, just before the screen is cleared and Linux swaps me to tty1 where I can put my login.
How can I access the bootstrapping tty ...
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What does “:pts/1:S.0” mean?
From the output of last on RHEL5
user3 pts/6 :pts/1:S.0 Sat Feb 26 04:04 - 05:40 (01:35)
user2 pts/7 :0.0 Fri Feb 25 21:32 - 04:53 (07:21)
user1 pts/6 ...
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How to get tty shell working directory?
Is it possible to get working directory of any of my tty shells? So\ get working directory of any shell in /dev/ttys??? belonging to me. I use OS X.
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Linux: can't get out of Ctrl-Alt-F7 with no X server running
I'm currently logged in (locally) to a machine and was running in a TTY session without having started an X server. I accidentally Ctrl-Alt-F7'ed bringing me to where the graphical shell would be if ...
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Can i start an X session “background”?
can i start the *DM (e.g. kdm) on tty7, but not present on the screen?
For example, i want to stay at tty1 while the login manager is waiting on tty7 on boot.
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Hardware Device that splits a T1 line to 24 TTY Modems?
I have ZERO experience with T1, so I'm having trouble using my usual means of research here. My boss told me there is a type of device that can split a T1 Line into 24 separate TTY Modems.
The ...
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PPP connection between PalmOS and Ubuntu (over ttyUSB0?) without crashy “visor” kernel module
I have a Palm Treo 680 which I'd like to use as a media remote, using Palm MPC. Almost the exact instructions on that page used to work perfectly for establishing a PPP connection over the USB cable; ...
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Redirect input from one terminal to another
I have sshed into a linux box and I'm using dvtm and bash (although I have also tried this with Gnu screen and bash). I have two terminals, current /dev/pts/29 and /dev/pts/130. I want to redirect ...
