Questions tagged [tabs]
Tabs in a GUI window. Use the whitespace, text-formatting, or CSV tags if your question involves the tabulation (tab) character.
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Confusing tab UI in Nautilus/Files Manager
The currently displayed window forms a single and continuous visual/color space with inactive tabs. Like in the example above, the user sees the content/folders of the sys directory, whereas the UI ...
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What's overriding my .vimrc tabstop size setting for CMake files?
In my ~/.vim/vimrc, I have:
set shiftwidth=4
set tabstop=4
and when I edit a plain text file, that is respected. However, when I edit a CMake file - these both becomes 8. I tried looking for 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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Vim: Is it possible to open multiple files and jump to specific lines?
Regularly, one may open one file "foobar" and jump directly to line M as such:
vim +M foobar
Now, I have a whole list of files "foobar1", "foobar2", ..., "foobarN&...
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How to send Alt+1 to CLI when multiple tabs are open in gnome-terminal?
Both ranger and the gnome-terminal use Alt + 1, Alt + 2 etc to switch to the corresponding tab. So if a gnome-terminal window only has one tab and ranger is open, then pressing Alt + 2 will go the ...
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How to query current tab name of tabbed GUI terminals (any)
Using tmux, I have implemented a work flow in which I set a virtual home-directory for each "window" I create in tmux. I can query the name of the current window with tmux display-message -p ...
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Bad columns formatting by the tr command [duplicate]
I have a file like this
AAA:111111:FIRSTLINE
BBBBBBB:22222222222:SECONDLINE
CCC:33333333333333333333:THIRD LINE
And I wanted to change each ":" by a tab. For that, I used the tr command
tr &...
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How to track all shortcut keys pressed and the process they interact with?
For a while now and for some reason I find myself in the unpleasant situation of Ctrl-w not working anymore in any program, which means I need the mouse any time I want to close a tab.
I tried ...
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Value is required after -x (--tabs)
I try to use "man command" but terminal gives me this output "Value is required after -x (--tabs)". What is this?
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delete specific rows from a tab separted file [closed]
I have a tab separated file, which has 6 columns, but some rows are not so:
There are many such lines in my file like the 7th. When I write
awk '{print $1"\t"$2"\t"$3"\t"...
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How to know current tab width of terminal?
I know tabs command can be used to set the tab width of the terminal, but how can I know current tab width of the terminal (assuming the tabs are equidistant)? I can't find related information in tabs ...
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gnome-terminal doesn't open tabs properly from my script
i have a script to launch gnome terminal with multiple tabs. The tabs are opened based on a list of directories listed in .tabs file that are in the same dir as the script.
I create a string with ...
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Colored bash prompt and tab title
I cannot seem to get both a colored terminal prompt and the tab title to change at the same time.
function tab_title() {
local tab_replace="${USER}@${HOSTNAME}"
local tab_orig="$PS1"
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How do I open the current directory in a new tab?
My environment
Terminal.app 2.9.4 on macOS
zsh 5.7.1
When I used bash, Terminal could open current directory in a new tab, but it have not been able to do that since I changed to zsh.
In the app ...
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Is there a window manager that allows tabs of multiple different programs in one window? (Like Windows 10 Sets)?
I installed the Windows 10 preview releases awhile back because I wanted to try the Sets feature that was being worked on. Sadly, this was removed from the beta releases, and has not returned.
Is ...
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