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Normally to leave the terminal we can do AltTab, but what about the case where the browser etc. isn't running, so there's no other window to jump to? Well, if you didn't start the terminal in the ...
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So I'm running a Devuan (but for these purposes it could be Debian as well as most other distros, I guess...) and somehow, when I enter the root shell in a graphical terminal via su, the PATH variable ...
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I'm trying to rescue a venerable piece of lab hardware, that was being accessed through a terminal emulator running on a windows XP system that's blown up. ( A replacement is out of the question, it ...
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I'm confused from the actual meaning of the echoing feature implemented in Linux TTY driver. As far as I know, a pseudo-terminal pair (PTY pair) consists of a PTY master, a PTY slave and a line ...
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I want to use a double-click (or a specific mouse button for double-click) to act like the Enter key in both the Linux terminal (e.g., KDE Terminal) and browser URL bars (Firefox/Chrome) or anywhere ...
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I've noticed that using Ctrl+L to clear my terminal has some differences from using the clear command (from ncurses 6.5.20240427). It seems that the clear command will wipe every character in the ...
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I instructed my terminal emulator to send "\u{85}" (C1 control character "NEXT LINE" (NEL)) down the pipe to be caught by bash: bind -x '"\u0085":"echo Hello"' ...
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I am a noobie running a Hyper-V instance of Kali Linux and have switched my default terminal editor to Ghostty. Doing so has broken the desktop and panel shortcuts I have, but only the ones that run ...
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I maintain an extension for the Bash environment called Basta. Basta provides a scroll-protected status line at the bottom of your ANSI/VT100 terminal. When Basta sets itself up, the effective number ...
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I recently started learning about Operating Systems and the linux kernel. I was interested in terminals, so I started there, however, I quickly ran into a problem. I wrote a slightly longer question, ...
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In the latest versions of terminals (gnome-terminal, mate-terminal, konsole, xfce4-terminal, xterm, etc), programs seem aware of whether some text is from paste or keyboard input. Specifically: If I ...
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I am looking for a cross platform way to check if I am using a terminal emulator (with support for unicode characters) or a TTY session (with only support for ASCII chars). I initially tried to use if ...
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Is it possible to do in KDE Konsole? If yes, how? If it's not possible in Konsole, are there any terminal emulators with this feature? I tried drag&dropping a tab from one window to another (as ...
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What I want to achieve is to have a specific emoji appear next to dotfiles inside file manager "LF" (these can be made visible in the file manager with the "zh" shortcut). In my ~/....
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In xterm, when I press the HOME key on my keyboard, it normally sends ^[[H but when I open emacs -nw, it changes to ^[OH; those are home and khome respectively. I figured out while trying to build my ...
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