Questions tagged [mobaxterm]
X11 server with ssh client terminal and tools for Windows
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How to export MobaXterm sessions to another computer?
How can I export MobaXterm sessions to another computer? There is mention of a MobaXterm.ini file, but I cannot locate that file using the documentation.
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Where does MobaXterm keep its home directory?
I have found MobaXterm to be a very useful terminal client, but I really want to be able to move files into and out of the home directory /home/mobaxterm. On my Windows filesystem, that is not a valid ...
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Is there a keyboard / mouse shortcut for paste in MobaXTerm?
The right click is the shortcut for putty to perform a paste in the terminal.
Is there a similar shortcut in MobaXTerm?
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Is it possible to save the session password in MobaXterm?
I always start up ssh at the start of a work day. MobaXterm asks me for a passphrase the first time I open a terminal for a saved session. Is it possible to save this password so that I don't have to ...
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MobaXterm backspace sends ^H
Long question:
I'm trying to test my simple HTTP Server by Telnet-ing alot of requests and seeing how the server reacts. But when i make a typo and press Backspace to erase the previous character, ...
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use Windows path variable in MobaXterm
How can I use the Windows path in MobaXterm?
I enjoy using MobaXterm for bash commands in windows. But I dislike that I need to change directories to run many executables.
The MobaXterm ...
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Turn off screen saver in MobaXterm
Is there a way turn off the screen saver on MobaXterm?
MobaXterm uses a screen saver implementing penguins icons which glide across the screen during periods of user inactivity. I would like to ...
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How to fix "MobaXterm X11 proxy: Unsupported authorisation protocol"
When connecting from Windows to my Linux box using MobaXterm, I cannot open Linux-GUI applications on the Windows side. On the Windows side, nothing happens. On the Linux box I get this error message:
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MobaXterm captures hotkeys when I am in another program
For example, while in Notepad++ when I press ctrl+alt+m, MobaXterm opens a local terminal session. How can I stop this, please? I don't want MobaXterm capturing anything in my Windows environment.
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How to extract passwords from Mobaxterm Free Version
On Customer site they are using Free version of Mobaxterm and passwords are saved in it. Now they dont remember the password. i want to extract password somehow. Any idea where these passwords are ...
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Using windows Git Bash in MobaXterm
I have custom macros etc in my mobaxterm, but I have worked for a half a year on a remote linux machines, now I have my code on my local PC and I use git bash. Can I use it through MobaXterm?
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How do I get out of full-screen mode in MobaXterm?
I am in full-screen mode in MobaXterm and can't seem to get out of it. I tried right-clicking and selecting "reset the terminal", but that didn't work.
I also tried Alt-Tab, F8 and other escape ...
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How can I correctly copy a folder from my local computer to my server using SSH? Why the scp command go into an error?
I am logged into my web server via SSH using a tool named MobaXterm (it is someting like Putty but with advanced feature, this is not so important...)
My problem is that I want to send a directory ...
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MobaXterm is there a way to disable copy on select?
I am using SSH in MobaXterm, is there a way to prevent automatic "copy" when you select some text (e.g. in gedit), or with the mouse ?
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How does one define aliases for use within MobaXTerm *local* bash shell?
I have been using MobaXterm for the last couple of weeks in Windows and I love it.
However, I haven't quite figured out how to define my own aliases for use within the local bash shell. The obvious ...
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What keyboard shortcuts would let me temporarily change the font size in a MobaXterm terminal?
I was excited to learn that you can hold down Ctrl and use the scroll wheel on the mouse to change the font size in MobaXterm. Later, I thought I found a key combination that did the same thing, but I ...
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MobaXTerm Powerline Font Issue
On my raspberry pi I am using bash with powerline and also vim with powerline.
If I connect the Pi to an external display everything looks fine but when I connect via MobaXterm or Cygwin ssh the ...
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How to keep color schemes when connecting through ssh in MobaXterm
I have MobaXterm Personal edition v7.3. I changed the color scheme for my terminal to "Soft Pastel". It works great with the local terminal but everytime I log in to any remote server the default ...
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Windows 10, MobaXterm, "bash: /bin/chmod: cannot execute binary file"
bash: /bin/chmod: cannot execute binary file.
Similar to another question here on the boards.
I tried answer suggestion, but to no avail:
uninstalled MobaXterm
re-installed MobaXterm
Still get:
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Create SSH tunnel using MobaXterm on Windows
I have SSH access to a CentOS server.
There I have a venv with Python 3 where I have Jupyter Notebooks installed.
If I create a notebook
jupyter notebook
It gives me a localhost URL with a specific ...
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MobaXterm Local Terminal Doesn't work - Closes immediately
I'm able to SSH to into other machines using MobaXterm, but when I try to run the Local terminal, the Tab just opens and closes all by its own. Am I missing something like a config file ? I tried ...
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How to prevent Mobaxterm SSH browser from automatically disconnecting?
when using mobaxterm SSH browser, it will disconnect after a while and even if you selected send SSH keepalive in settings->SSH. It still does so. Is there any way to persist SSH browser over a ...
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How to get an elevated powershell in MobaXterm?
Is it possible to create an elevated powershell prompt with MobaXterm? That is, a shell with admin privileges?
Below is a picture of the 'Session' window of MobaXterm with the 'Shell' tab selected, 1....
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How can I add as many sessions as I want?
In Mobaxterm, is there a way to add as many remote sessions as want?
I don't see any options in the file mobaxterm.ini
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MobaXTerm : How to change mouse scroll in to terminal screen scroll up/down?
The default behavior is history commands scrolling.
Any way to change it?
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"Server refused our key" Only from MobaXterm bookmark setup
Have a very strange problem, cannot figure it out on my own.
Archlinux server with openssh 8.8p1-1
I'm not using password for authentication, only SSH-RSA keys.
Public key is stored on server inside /...
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Remote monitoring on MobaXterm
There is a remote monitoring bar at the bottom of the MobaXterm. That's very cool and it is near real-time.
I wish I could full-screen the CPU utilization chart, but it is not possible. A similar ...
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Mouse scrolling in MobaXterm tmux
On my Linux computer I have the following .tmux.conf file:
# Enable mouse mode (tmux 2.1 and above)
set -g mouse on
This allows me to scroll up and down using the mouse wheel while in a tmux session.
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can't run 'wget|curl|git clone' or 'irb' in MobaXterm
A collegaue recommended me to try out MobaXterm (Personal) for my *nix on Windows (7) needs.
It's promissing but I have the following problems:
although I had installed ruby (tried the apt-get and ...
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Config option to permanently disable "window always in foreground" mode in MobaXTerm
The MobaXterm release notes for v9.4 say the following:
Improvement: added a "Stay on top" button for fullscreen windows
in order to toggle "window always in foreground" mode
I want to disable ...
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MobaXTerm jumps to next tab when pressing CTRL
I have the problem, that I every time I press CTRL MobaXTerm jumps to the next tab, although the keyboard shortcut is set to CTRL+SHIFT+TAB.
This makes it difficult to use shells, since the CTRL key ...
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Does anyone know how to edit a Macro created in mobaxterm?
I have a macro that I recorded thinking I could go back and edit it. But I can't seem to find a way to edit it. There is a macro button but it only runs the macro. I've looked in the mobaxterm ...
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How to send “ctrl + c” in MobaXterm
In MobaXterm, any time you press ctrl, it opens the “find in terminal” dialog, preventing you from using hotkeys like ctrl+c or ctrl+z.
How do you work around this?
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MobaXterm keepalive change default of 60s to 10s
I had to change from Fiber to LTE. Now my SSH keeps timing out.
I can enable keepalive under Settings->Configuration->SSH->Keepalive, however this always sets it at 60s. 10s seems to work ...
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Cygwin terminal / shell session in mobaxterm
I have (64-bit) Cygwin install on my Windows machine; and I'm also using mobaxterm 12.4.
How do I get my mobaxterm to...
Start a Cygwin shell session? Or better yet
Use Cygwin as the default when ...
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Sftp in MobaXterm
How can i get in MobaXterm's sftp directory, current server's directory when entering in nested servers. For example: First login in server [email protected] and from there connect to server 192....
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How to get the "screen" utility to work on MobaXterm?
I got this error when I first tried to use the screen utility:
$ screen
Directory /tmp/uscreens/S-Wildcard must have mode 700.
Oddly enough, I don't seem to get this error again; I get this ...
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Can no longer forward X11 with MobaXterm
Until today, I was able to effortlessly enable X11-forwarding with MobaXterm from my Linux laptop to my Windows laptop.
However, as of today, I am suddenly getting this error message whenever I try to ...
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ssh tunneling for sftp in MobaXterm in Windows system
How to set ssh tunneling for sftp in MobaXterm?
I know PuTTY can set ssh tunneling for sftp when there is a gateway between your local computer and the remote server.
But I can not find the same ...
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How to set mobaxterm to factory settings?
I have been using mobaxterm for ssh connection to a ubuntu server to compile and run C programs. I use the sftp settings to edit code on the fly with its built in text editor. Everything was great ...
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simulate paste from clipboard (CTRL + V / SHIFT + INS) in a MobaXterm macro
I would like to create a macro in MobaXterm that types some text and then pastes the IP address from my clipboard.
eg.
type: ssh -l username
send keypress: CTRL + V
Is this possible at all?
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preventing MobaXTerm sidebar from opening,
I would like to not have to close the sidebar after opening a ssh session but i cannot find a way to stop it.
Does anyone know if there is a way to stop MobaXTerm from opening up the sidebar after ...
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Cannot change tab label in MobaXterm
I am using MobaXterm v20.6 and WSL2+Ubuntu 20.04 from Microsoft Store. I am trying to label the tabs defining PS1 like: PS1="\e]0;\u@\h\a\w #" but tabs are still labeled as "1. WSL-...
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MobaXterm Newline
Is there any way to set MobaXterm to implicitly add Carriage Return chars ("\r") when a Newline character, "\n", is received? Like in TeraTerm you can set NewLine to CR, CR+LF, LF ...
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How to launch MobaXterm from right-click context menu on Windows 10
Just like Shift+Right-Click to open a command prompt in that folder, I want to replace the command prompt with MobaXterm on Windows platform
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How do I delete "Custom Sessions" after a MobaXTerm upgrade?
I recently updated my MobaXTerm version to v22.2 (build 5008); I had a much older version before, maybe even 12.x.
After the update, my session tree seems to be duplicated: I see my sessions once as &...
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Is there a way to export Macros from MobaXterm
Hi I'm using MobaXterm v12.1 and would like to export the macros I created from my laptop to another one. Does anyone know how to do this?
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How to prevent MobaXterm from prepending the path?
When I create a local shell session in MobaXterm with the CMD "terminal shell" selected, the MobaXterm path %USERPROFILE%\Documents\MobaXterm\slash\binis prepended to my full path. This is breaking ...
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ssh: connect to host port 22: Connection refused
I am trying to ssh into my new Raspberry Pi using MobaXterm but I keep getting the following error:
ssh: connect to host ... port 22: Connection refused.
Both the PC and Raspberry Pi have wired ...
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Powershell 7 / core in MobaXterm
Is it possible to add a new (saved) session to MobaXterm for Powershell 7 / future versions of Powershell Core?
Currently the only option when adding a new shell session is "Powershell", which adds a ...
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