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Run tmux always when I open terminal
I usually open lxterminal with bash shell where I usually type tmux command first.
I'd like to have launched tmux command automatically, so I tried to add this command to ~/.bash_profile or to ...
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Can I write control characters to someone else's terminal?
A lot of people log into the same AIX 6.1 server as I do with a terminal emulator that automatically interprets and runs code encapsulated by certain control characters as VBA script instead of ...
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console space eaten up by file contents
see the example below to understand my problem ; consider my console prompt look like this
user@server $ ls
"I opened a file temp"
user@server $ vi temp
"temp will open in the same window, when I ...
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What is a good X terminal not from a major window environment?
I'm looking for a terminal program I can use with a minimal fluxbox environment I am setting up.
Ideally, I am looking for a terminal program that supports tabs and true transparency.
So far it ...
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Terminal Character Encoding Issue BitchX
I ran BitchX on three different Linux OS-es because I got this weird � (question mark) on two of them (Linux OpenSUSE 11.4 and BackTrack 5 R1) using yakuake/konsole (OpenSUSE) and terminator/tilda (BT ...
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What is the difference between a Console, Shell, Terminal, Terminal emulator, Terminal multiplexer, and a Window manager?
For example. What is the difference between a default 'interface/console' of FreeBSD/archlinux, vs Terminal, vs Terminal emulator like Xterm, vs Terminal multiplexer like tmux, vs Window manager like ...
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Preventing LyX from getting a SIGHUP and closing when the terminal window is closed
I have written a Ruby script to manage my LyX documents. The script has a short CLI interaction with the user(=me), and then it decides the name of the file to open, and opens it via a lyx shell ...
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terminal emulator which auto closes after execution but stays open if there was an error during execution
I have a automatic build script it uses a makefile which starts different ant scripts depending on the target
I start it using xterm (I have a shortcut on the desktop)
It works fine but if I want ...
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Configurable tab-bar, or rich-featured terminal emulator
Is there any terminal emulator where the user can choose the position of the tab bar? I want to have the tab bar on the left, with vertically aligned tabs, or configure the tab-bar to be multi-line. I ...
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is it possible to send a control sequence to a terminal emulator using the keyboard
If you type echo -e '\eZ' and hit return in a shell running in an xterm, you'll see that the terminal emulator prints an obscure code 1;2c. This seems to indicate that xterm interprets the VT100 ...
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In Bash, why is PROMPT_COMMAND set to something invisible?
On RHEL6 and CentOS 6, /etc/bashrc sets PROMPT_COMMAND here:
case $TERM in
xterm*)
if [ -e /etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm ]; then
PROMPT_COMMAND=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm
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sv_SE.UTF-8 Problems with Bash and VIM in iTerm2
Two specific issues, despite me running iconv -f iso-8859-15 on my old files when converting from sv_SE.iso8859-15 to sv_SE.utf-8 I still get distorted characters. And I believe it's because of Vim ...
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Looking for X terminal with correct window resize handling
Is there any X terminal program, which reflows the content when I'm resizing the window? Gnome-terminal and Sakura does it well halfway: when I'm shrinking the window and re-expanding it, the stuff ...
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Changing terminal emulators
I have ssh access to a remote machine. In this machine if I run echo $TERM I get xterm.
If I want to change my terminal emulator to some other emulator (assuming that it's installed on the remote ...
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Checking how many colors my terminal emulator supports
Is there a reliable way to check how many colors my terminal emulator supports?
If echo $TERM prints xterm, does that unequivocally tell me how many colors my terminal emulator supports? How could I ...
