There is a terminal left floating on top of my other windows: It doesn’t show if I take a window screenshot. I can’t Alt + Drag – that drags the window below. I can’t Alt + Tab – Terminal is not open: What can I do? Answer Pressing Alt + F2 to bring up the … Read more
all. I am using the gnome-terminal 3.26.1 and vim 8.0.1176. Installing Limelight worked, but when i want to start it, i get the error message in the gnome-terminal Unsupported Terminal. Sorry Limelight works on terminals that support 256 colors. As far as i know gnome-terminal supports that many colors. When i use vim inside xfce4-terminal … Read more
I edited my bash_aliases to have a new alias (stars block out my email for privacy sake): alias t_cluster=”u*******@notchpeak.chpc.utah.edu” I then mistakenly added this to my bash_aliases (when I meant to add it to my bashrc): if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then . ~/.bash_aliases fi As soon as I saved and exited the bash_aliases my … Read more
I am trying to write a bash script that opens a new gnome terminal window and runs an aliased command. I have seen that instead of using aliases using a function is the proper way to go. I have tried both approaches but I can’t get it to work though, as I am getting an … Read more
I upgraded Ubuntu to Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS. My current version GNOME 3.36.8, and the windowing system is X11. My Gnome Terminal version is 3.36.2. Before the upgrade selecting text in the Gnome terminal copied the text to a buffer/clipboard that could be pasted into any desktop application. After the upgrade, selecting text in the Gnome … Read more
I’ve disabled the toolbar of my console in bash. Apparently there is not short-cut key (hat I know off) to switch the toolbar’s visibility. Is there an easy way to get my toolbar back? Answer If you are using the standard terminal (gnome-terminal), right click into the terminal window and check the Show Menubar checkbox. … Read more
I tried this answer, but it broke my Gnome Terminal, with this error message: There was a problem with the command for this terminal Text was empty (or contained only whitespace) I tried reinstalling it and uninstalling/reinstalling it to no avail. Anyone have any ideas how I can fix this? I really need my terminal … Read more
When working with gnome-terminal, I found that I often want to open a second copy of a tab: e.g. during a ssh session, I may need a second session at the same host and same remote path; or a second mc when two panels aren’t enough. Is this possible? Answer You can’t duplicate the entire … Read more
I upgraded Ubuntu to Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS. My current version GNOME 3.36.8, and the windowing system is X11. My Gnome Terminal version is 3.36.2. Before the upgrade selecting text in the Gnome terminal copied the text to a buffer/clipboard that could be pasted into any desktop application. After the upgrade, selecting text in the Gnome … Read more
When working with gnome-terminal, I found that I often want to open a second copy of a tab: e.g. during a ssh session, I may need a second session at the same host and same remote path; or a second mc when two panels aren’t enough. Is this possible? Answer You can’t duplicate the entire … Read more
