Questions tagged [terminal-emulator]
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Confused about root shell $PATH
So I'm running a Devuan (but for these purposes it could be Debian as well as most other distros, I guess...) and somehow, when I enter the root shell in a graphical terminal via su, the PATH variable ...
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What sort of terminal might this be?
I'm trying to rescue a venerable piece of lab hardware, that was being accessed through a terminal emulator running on a windows XP system that's blown up. ( A replacement is out of the question, it ...
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TTY line discipline echoing feature
I'm confused from the actual meaning of the echoing feature implemented in Linux TTY driver.
As far as I know, a pseudo-terminal pair (PTY pair) consists of a PTY master, a PTY slave and a line ...
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How can I make a double-click act as the Enter key in Linux terminal and browser URL bars?
I want to use a double-click (or a specific mouse button for double-click) to act like the Enter key in both the Linux terminal (e.g., KDE Terminal) and browser URL bars (Firefox/Chrome) or anywhere ...
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What does Ctrl+L do "under the hood", if not invoke clear?
I've noticed that using Ctrl+L to clear my terminal has some differences from using the clear command (from ncurses 6.5.20240427).
It seems that the clear command will wipe every character in the ...
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bind -x with unicode codepoints
I instructed my terminal emulator to send "\u{85}" (C1 control character "NEXT LINE" (NEL)) down the pipe to be caught by bash:
bind -x '"\u0085":"echo Hello"'
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Switching to a new default terminal breaks my desktop and panel shortcuts
I am a noobie running a Hyper-V instance of Kali Linux and have switched my default terminal editor to Ghostty.
Doing so has broken the desktop and panel shortcuts I have, but only the ones that run ...
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Detectng missed SIGWINCH in Bash extension, when apparent terminal size has not changed
I maintain an extension for the Bash environment called Basta. Basta provides a scroll-protected status line at the bottom of your ANSI/VT100 terminal.
When Basta sets itself up, the effective number ...
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Where is the tty line discipline exactly "logically" located?
I recently started learning about Operating Systems and the linux kernel. I was interested in terminals, so I started there, however, I quickly ran into a problem. I wrote a slightly longer question, ...
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How do I distinguish paste and input in terminals? [duplicate]
In the latest versions of terminals (gnome-terminal, mate-terminal, konsole, xfce4-terminal, xterm, etc), programs seem aware of whether some text is from paste or keyboard input. Specifically:
If I ...
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Help to set up bspwm on Ubuntu in VMware
I've installed bspwm and sxhkd on Ubuntu Server LTS 24.04 in vmware. I use lightDM as display manager, qterminal as terminal emulator. When I open a terminal in bspwm gui, it looks like there are some ...
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Cross-platform method of checking if using terminal emulator or tty
I am looking for a cross platform way to check if I am using a terminal emulator (with support for unicode characters) or a TTY session (with only support for ASCII chars). I initially tried to use if ...
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Merging 2 Konsole windows in one (so each window is a tab in one window)
Is it possible to do in KDE Konsole? If yes, how?
If it's not possible in Konsole, are there any terminal emulators with this feature?
I tried drag&dropping a tab from one window to another (as ...
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Setting icon for hidden files in LF (file manager)
What I want to achieve is to have a specific emoji appear next to dotfiles inside file manager "LF" (these can be made visible in the file manager with the "zh" shortcut).
In my ~/....
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xterm seems to change its "home" key behaviour for emacs
In xterm, when I press the HOME key on my keyboard, it normally sends ^[[H but when I open emacs -nw, it changes to ^[OH; those are home and khome respectively. I figured out while trying to build my ...
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