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How to find gnome-terminal currently used profile with cmd line?
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and I want to be able to tell which profile is used by a given terminal emulator. Just the name would be enough.
It's trivial to find with GUI : just right click in the ...
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how to open multiple tabs, from the command line, in gnome-terminal v3.44.0 (ubuntu 22.04), while running one custom command on each tab?
how to open multiple tabs, from the command line, in gnome-terminal v3.44.0 (ubuntu 22.04), while running one custom command on each tab?
every other question/answer I found have answers about using -...
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Konsole --new-tab: choose which existing konsole instance
I usually have several konsole windows on several desktops.
Running konsole --new-tab is intended to open a new tab in an existing window, but it seems never goes to the window I want. This is really ...
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gnome-terminal how to send commands
For an application, I need to open a new terminal window and later execute some commands in that.
I tried the command
gnome-terminal
And it works properly, it open a new terminal, but when i want to ...
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How can I use the terminal and track what is being changed?
I was wondering if it's possible to use the CLI to track the changes I am making in an app launched through the CLI. For example:
Launch CLI.
Enter gnome-control-center.
Make random changes in the ...
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Starting background process from command line (different behavior)
In Ubuntu (21.10), I start a file manager from the command line window (gnome terminal 3.38.1):
nemo .
Sometimes, the command line returns and I can enter more commands.
Sometimes, the command line ...
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cd into folder name that starts with an emoji
I forked an open source project to work on but one of the folder names I want to cd into starts with an emoji. How can I enter into it? I know I can use the GUI to look through the folder but I rather ...
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Changing the preferences of Gnome-terminal from within the terminal
Is there any way that we can edit the terminal preferences like background, colors, etc., from within the command line itself? The terminal is Gnome-terminal.
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 trusty tahr.
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Home key not working in terminal
I am using GNOME Terminal 2.7.3 and zsh 4.3.9 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
Home and End are not working. Nothing happens and nothing gets displayed when I press them. but they work when I press shift + ...
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How to properly write and execute a shell script and exit correctly? [duplicate]
I have written a shell script named startup.sh which does a lot of things (basically start a lot of things for me after turning on my local machine) - here is an excerpt:
#!/bin/bash
gnome-terminal --...
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why piping pwd and echo does not work? [duplicate]
I'm new to unix. I typed this command in ubuntu terminal:
pwd | echo
I expected to see the output of pwd in terminal(/home/fatemeh/Documents/Code/test)
but the output was just a single empty line.
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Why is it that everytime I mistype a command bash stops working? [closed]
Every time I mistype a command such as cd.. (e.g. I forgot to separate cdand .. with a space) the command prompt disappears and I can no longer use commands in the terminal unless I close and reopen ...
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gnome-terminal bengali unicode chars breaking, not showing perfectly
In gnome-terminal, Bengali Unicode characters are showing, but not as should be shown. Vowels are not joining with consonants, such as "ব + া" should shown as "বা", but it is showing separately.
See ...
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Change Terminal's background with a command
Is there a command via which I can change the Terminal's background instead of doing so through the Edit -> Profile -> Edit -> Background pulldown?
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How to prevent the terminal from closing when the program it was started with ends? [duplicate]
If I start a terminal (any terminal, for example urxvt) like urxvt -e sleep 5, then a new terminal is launched but after 5 seconds the terminal closes, because the sleep program has ended. How can I ...
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