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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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I'm using Claude Code (v2.1.214) in Visual Studio Code for the Web's integrated terminal running on Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS. I access Visual Studio Code for the Web via Windows 11 25H2 Pro x64 + Google ...
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I noticed some strange behavior with Windows Command Prompt while using SSH to connect to a remote Linux server and was wondering if there is an explanation. I am designing a database on a remote ...
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I'm using herdr on Windows and trying to set Ctrl+, as the prefix. In ~/.config/herdr/config.toml I tried: [keys] prefix = "ctrl+comma" and also "ctrl+,". Other prefixes like ctrl+...
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Toggling word-wrap in Less requires 4 key-presses: - Shift S Enter. In other editors it requires 2 presses: Alt Z or similar. And toggling the option repeatedly requires one key-press in these other ...
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I have repeatedly attempted to get w3m to display images directly within my standard WSL terminal window; I compiled w3m with Sixel support, installed and configured an X server and experimented with ...
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Here's the situation: there are many thousands of custom content add-ones available for The Sims 2, which was designed for Windows, and the vast majority of players are Windows users. The game loads ...
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I would like to put a condition around a login script: Auto-run certain tools such as screen or mc, but only if a graphic window manager is not running. What's the simplest test to do that?
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I'm using Claude Code (v2.x) in the Cursor IDE integrated terminal on Windows 11 25H2 Pro x64. When I've typed a prompt into the input box but haven't sent it yet, I want to extract that text cleanly ...
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I have a habit of sometimes clicking and holding on random words in apps on Mac until the definition popup shows up. I was doing this in terminal, until a weird behavior popped up. After doing this a ...
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I've been using Linux for a few months now. I'm using debian 13. I installed it (moving from arch Linux) and it worked fine until I installed flathub and rebooted. It couldn't get past the systemD ...
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Open Microsoft's Terminal app. Press Ctrl+Shift+P to open the Command Palette. Start typing split. Split pane... will show up and shows a shortcut of ctrl+alt+???? The problem is, what is that last ...
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I know that Control-U deletes a line in Terminal, but how do I do the same when multi-lines are involved? As this first screen recording shows, repeatedly typing Control-U sometimes works, but it's a ...
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My kitty terminal asks for confirmation when closing terminal windows even though I set it to: confirm_os_window_close -1 My expectation is that there's no confirmation prompt if there are no active ...
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Whenever I debug an application in VS, it opens a new Terminal window. I already have one Terminal window with a few tabs open at all times, and I often have to debug several applications at once, ...
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Feeling way out of my depth with this one. I have been trying to install Tartube on my MacOS via terminal. This involved installing Homebrew, Python 3, Gtk 3, Python Requests Module, Youtube-dl, the ...

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