Questions tagged [terminal]
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, also referred to as a "system console".
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Why is `~/.zlogout` not sourced when non-interactive ZSH shell runs `exit`?
My ~/.zlogout contains the following:
echo '~/.zlogout!'
Let's run the following script:
su user -ls /bin/zsh -c 'echo kaasbier; exit'
Nothing is echoed (besides the kaasbier). I am testing this in ...
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Install Builder - Linux - Prevent confirmation message in Terminal
I created an installer using Install Builder.
When installing from Terminal on Debian it shows this message,
Welcome to the Application Setup Wizard.
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terminal automatically shows user@dhcp instead of user@fedora
my system (fedora 40) automatically shows user@dhcpf196 instead of the usual user@fedora in the terminal whenever I connect to the internet. I think this is my university dhcp server but the machine I'...
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Unknown terminal: "/tmpERM"
On my Linux headless distro, i have a recurring error where when running some commands ("clear", "nvim", etc.), instead of the expected behaviour of running the command i get an ...
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How do I jump to the beginning of a command in Windows Terminal?
In Linux, I can skip to the beginning of a command by pressing Ctrl-A , and Ctrl-E for jumping to the end of that. However, it is not compatible with Windows Termianl. How am I going to do that? ...
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vim "rendering" issue, possible terminal issue?
Recently I've started having a strange issue with the "rendering" of Vim. I say rendering because it only seems to affect what's show on the screen and not the output to the actual file.
I'm ...
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Is there any way to create a new window terminal (pseudo-terminal) using a command without setting env $DISPLAY?
I am currently building an open-source utility (plugin), which requires a new terminal window (pseudo-terminal) to become more effective whenever it gets executed.
I was using gnome-terminal to ...
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tmux doesn't instantly update pane's title
I'd like to have tmux "instantly" update the pane's title to match what is currently being executed in the terminal. For an instance:
If the pane contains the shell then its title should be ...
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Flushing output on interrupt on the Linux cmdline
On a local terminal, the stty -noflsh option allows to discard buffered
output on Ctrl-C and thus prevents from long scrolling delays if one did
accidentally output large amounts of text to the ...
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Shell prompt colored outside of tmux, but not in tmux; how can I get colored prompt in tmux?
I am a new user of tmux and wondering how I can highlight machine name and working directory? What I mean is below.
In default Ubuntu terminal:
While in tmux:
I know this is a minor, but having ...
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Terminal in on a MacBook Pro (M2) is not working after setting a path. How can I fix it?
I tried to set Python path in .zshrc and save it. But after saving it, the terminal is not working anymore.
For all commands giving command not found and every time, I can see the path file in the ...
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How to match PDF okular colors with Terminal colors?
OS: Kubuntu 22.04.4 LTS x86_64
okular 21.12.3
konsole 21.12.3
to display above:
neofetch --stdout |grep 'OS:'
okular -version
konsole -version
outputs:
ok match color Blue in Terminal with ...
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TO close Tmux along with terminal (if terminal is closed)
I have configured my Tmux to open with i open terminal by modifying the .zshrc file.
[[ -z "$TMUX" ]] && tmux -u
It worked fine, now I want to close the tmux session when I close ...
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no colors in vi (vim(1)) when ssh from Windows to Linux. How to fix?
Windows Terminal 1.19.10573.0
When I ssh from Windows into a linux machine, I got colored output on the shell just fine. Directories and files are colored when using ls(1). Same with grep(1); results ...
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Failure to use `/dev/pty` for one outside msys2 `bash` when calling it in `vim` installed inherently by git-bash
Env: Windows 11 pro.
I want to call msys2 bash in git-bash's vim where both shares the same version of vim and bash (although this context seems to be weird).
I asked one origin question in Vi/Vim SE ...
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