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Connect to a Bluetooth device via Terminal
I'm using Mint 15 w/ Cinnamon.
I bought a set of bluetooth speakers and I'm trying to connect to them via terminal. Via the GUI I can see them normally and I am connected to them. I want to make a ...
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How do I get Ctrl + Alt + t to launch ther terminal in Linux Mint 13 MATE?
Pressing Ctrl + Alt + t seems to do nothing on my Linux Mint 13 MATE.
How can I set this shortcut to launch a terminal window?
As a detail, it seems the terminal is mate-terminal rather than gnome-...
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What's those underscore commands?
When I tab tab _ in terminal, Bash suggests 206 posibilities. I tried to run one of them _git_rm but nothing happend, what are they?
Here is a screenshot:
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Why can't I find MAKEDEV in the /dev folder?
I'm currently exploring the directory tree on Linux Mint while supporting it by a book that I bought. Well, the book specifically said that:
The /dev directory contains the special device files ...
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Error "dircolors: no SHELL environment variable, and no shell type option given"
Running Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon
A while ago a created a script that changed the colors in the Terminal (to match a tutorial I was following)
However if I open the terminal on another account, I get ...
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Recovering Invisible screens and dropdowns on linux
The terminal has gone invisible , although I can type commands and they get executed:
Even some firefox download dropdowns are invisible, I can click the items in the drop down list but the list ...
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I can't open the terminal in Cinnamon
I have Linux Mint 13 with Cinnamon installed, but I can't open a terminal using right click nor using CtlrAltt this is just an issue with Cinnamon, why is that happening?
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How can I get the Terminus font on gnome-terminator?
I'm trying to get the Terminus font on Terminator, and I already did the following:
Got the fonts in the right place I think:
└─▪ tree -a .local/share/fonts/ ...
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Gnome-terminal cannot open in working directory
I have got a strange problem with gnome-terminal after upgrading from Linux Mint 17.3 to 18.3. Now, --working-directory does not work anymore. Eg:
gnome-terminal --working-directory=/home/user/...
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Saving terminal windows in mint
How can I save all the terminal tabs(with each current pwd in each tab) and terminal window positions.
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How do you open the control center from Linux Mint Cinammon Desktop terminal?
How do you open the control center from Linux Mint Cinammon Desktop terminal?
Also, is it just shooter's preference for which file management is best? I don't have a problem with Nemo so far but if ...
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gnome-open replaced by sublime?
Update: It seems that it has been automatically fixed, however the same applies whenever I try to sudo gnome-open or gksu gnome-open
Well, this is a really weird one. I'm currently running Mint 13 ...
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Start desktop launcher from command line on Mint
Can I start a desktop launcher from command line? E.g. I have a desktop launcher for slack in my ~/Desktop directory:
vadim@my-pc ~/Desktop $ cat slack.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Slack
Comment=...
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Terminal resizes itself
I've recently installed Linux Mint 12 ("Lisa", i.e. not the KDE or Debian version) on a Zotac Mini-PC (Which has an AMD Video card. I'm not using the proprietary drivers as they don't work very well)....
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python3 traceback error
Whenever I mistype any command in terminal instead of getting Error:Command not found I get this python message error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site.py", line ...
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