Questions tagged [terminal-emulator]
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All GTK/VTE-based terminal emulators are showing a significant input lag
Recently, I've installed a new SSD drive and deployed Ubuntu 22.04.04 on it. At first everything was perfect, but then I noticed that gnome-terminal has a significant input lag (up to a second) even ...
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Why terminal display in Win10Terminal is treated differently? [telnet to a remote Linux] vs [run WSL2 natively]
I'm very baffled with a such a question. I believe it relates to those esoteric "Terminal" working details, so I hope I can get concrete technical answer here.
I have two lab machines:
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Is it possible to add a phosphor effect to a terminal emulator running under X11?
The phosphor looks like a stylish thing to play with. I have seen the phosphor screensaver for XScreenSaver, which allows running an application there (video available), though it is monochrome. Is ...
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How to change terminal command color linux
I am using Elementary 6 Odin, and I am trying to make commands like “sudo” red and “apt” green, any help would be appreciated!
My .bashrc file: https://pastebin.com/5mF6vnDj
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Default Alacritty terminal for WSL2
I just installed WSL2 with Ubuntu 20.04 on my Windows 10 machine and I also installed Alacritty terminal emulator for Windows. I'm wondering is there a way to make WSL to default into using Alacritty ...
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How do commands like top update output without appending in the console?
I connect to remote Linux servers using SSH via PuTTY terminal emulator. I notice the commands I run and the output on console keep appending in the terminal window. I mean, when I use scrollbar and ...
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Toggle background_opacity option in alacritty
I want to bind key that switchs background_opacity value between 0.9 and 1.0 and immedialty shows the result in Alactitty terminal.
There is no action in key_bindings for this purpose.
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How compatible between different terminal types ($TERM)?
For example, in putty I set TERM=xterm, then I login to a Linux server and in the command line I run export TERM=linux, and then I start gnu-screen with screen -T screen (means TERM=screen).
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How can I type a backslash (\) in Tera Term instead of a yen symbol (¥)?
When using the Tera Term terminal emulator, a yen symbol (¥) appears every time I try entering a backslash (\). This happens even if I try pasting a backslash in or using keyboard shortcuts.
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Force terminal emulator to read .bash_logout (or .logout, etc)
Searching fails me.
I noticed that some terminal emulators (gnome-terminal, terminator, maybe others) do not execute my logout file. Works well enough in a virtual terminal, but not through the ...
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'rxvt' terminal emulator resets settings after logout
when ever i logout, rxvt resets to it's out of the box ugly look. Then I have to run the following command to get my settings back.
xrdb ~/.Xresourses
Do i need to do this every time after I logout.
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Is there a way to replace cmd window with the new windows terminal?
Now that we have the new Windows Terminal, I never want to see the cmd.exe window again on my dev machine - is there any way I can make it replace it across the whole OS, just like in ConEmu and Cmder?...
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Terminal escape sequences in GNU Screen
So I'm quite confused with the concept of escape sequences in a terminal (or terminal emulator to be more precise) and how they relate to the screen bindkey command. I was looking at some sample ....
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ConEmu: How to call msys2 Portable as tab?
I mean to have several tabbed Msys2 terminals, all portable.
Is there a shell that has tabs that you can use with mingw?
suggests console2, but I could not find a portable version (if there is a ...
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What’s the difference between “su” and “su -“
In a UNIX machine, what is the difference between su and su -?
Is there even a difference?
I know that su - is the standard.
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