Reading any data in unicode does not display correctly in the linux terminal (meaning the virtual terminal that opens without an X windows).
I read in a discussion here that installing programs such as jfbterm, and it does work, so I was wondering if there isn't any way to configure (consolefonts?) the terminal to properly handle unicode without any extra software.
On windows terminals (gnome-te
When I press CTRL-/ in a graphical terminal (e.g. xterm) I get "undo". However, in a virtual terminal (e.g.
Hi I want to use mplayer to watch videos in a virtual terminal (for various reasons).
I've done it before without any issues but on fedora much of the text will blink in a very annoying fasion.
If you want to know what blinking I'm talking about put the following command in a virtual terminal.
I used to be able to copy&paste (or type if I load respective keyboard layout)
any kind of characters (eg. é ö ñ ß و 好) in my console/terminal.
Now I bought a new computer and it does not work any more, only English/ASCII characters (but in other programs, e.g. firefox, it still works).
Distribution: Ubuntu.
Hi,
If you don't know, alt+d is used to delete a word forward. But now it is just typing 'd' in the terminal, as if I've not pressed 'alt'
This key combination stopped working since a week, I have done no upgrades/installs wrt to gnome-terminal/gnome package.
What I've tried:
1. Installed few more terminals to check if it works in other..
tty = Works!
I managed to install Fedora 11 on a Dell optiplex 260. On the first boot - I can't launch the terminal in the graphical environment. On clicking system tools->terminal it brings up a window with title Starting terminal. It then disappears in a few seconds. Everything else works. I can get to a terminal using Ctrl-alt-f2. But cannot start the terminal within graphical environment.
I'm trying to launch one command in a new gnome-terminal window from a shell script, and it seems that my .bashrc file doesn't get sourced when calling gnome-terminal and executing a command:
gnome-terminal -t "my title" -e vim
But it does when launching gnome-terminal alone:
gnome-terminal -t "my title"
(for testing purposes, just add a echo "something" to the end of the .bashrc)
I also tr
On Ubuntu 10.04.04 LTS with gnome-terminal 2.30.2 with serveral tab open in a terminal. When I restart my computer the terminal with all the tab is here but I cannot acces to the terminal, write or swich of tab. This is very anoying.
Is there a way to fix this ?
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