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Is there a name for the text that shows up after executing each command line in a CLI?
for example in linux terminal I have
jurek@debian:~$ man help
No manual entry for help
I want to know how the second line is called
bc I want to ask an other question "How to copy this term (I'm ...
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Install Builder - Linux - Prevent confirmation message in Terminal
I created an installer using Install Builder.
When installing from Terminal on Debian it shows this message,
Welcome to the Application Setup Wizard.
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Is there a way to set password entry via curses interface in terminal?
For example when you forget to put sudo before "systemctl ..." insted of gui interface poping out I want a curses prompt in my termial. Something like pinentry but for sudo.
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How to make the Chromebook's Linux VM terminal run automatically when booting/booting up?
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How to make the Chromebook's Linux VM terminal run automatically when booting/booting up?.
I hope that maybe someone has tried it, maybe there is someone who has ...
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Autologin on debian without deskstop environment
I want to autologin to a specific account upon booting Debian, I do not want a desktop environment for my use case and simply need to bypass the input for the username. The input method I will be ...
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Remove xfce without terminal access or default root account
I purged any packages related to xfce on Debian, and when I rebooted the login screen was still there. Upon login, there was only the wallpaper and a right click context menu available. Launching ...
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Terminal size in terminfo not being honoured
I have a (custom, I've built it myself) serial terminal connected to a Raspberry Pi running Debian Linux. The screen size is a non-standard size, so I specify the terminal size in my terminfo file.
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prevent nut from constantly typing on command line (Debian)
I have been using Debian for a short time and when I login with my poor ssh user, there is a process that constantly writes to the console and makes me nervous. I get this warning message from nut:
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Where Is the Beep Sound File Location in Minimalistic Debian?
I have installed Debian without a desktop environment or the standard system utilities simply because I do not need a desktop environment (yet), and because many of Debian's system utilities are ...
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Change session name in screen
I am running multiple programs with different values for some variables in "screen". I want to change the name of the screen-sessions so I can identify them with "screen -ls" to ...
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WSL issue, vi, vim and nano are unusable (empty terminal screen) (same isue with ubuntu 20 or debian on wsl)
I get a strange issue with ubuntu on wsl.
When I want to modify a txt file on Ubuntu or Debian (via WSL in Windows), the content of the terminal empties and I see nothing (the content of the text file ...
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Debain system Shortcut inside SH Script
So I have a basic SH script that lanuches and splits TMUX.
I would just like the script to run either or Super+T or ALT-F10 after finishing all of the necessary steps for tmux. I have installed and ...
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Pasting into terminal, two steps vs one step [duplicate]
This is a weird problem -- for pasting text into terminal, I've seen two types of behaviors, two steps vs one step, and I had never figured out why.
Let me start with the "one step" behavior,...
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terminal fonts on debian 10 (konsole and gnome terminal)
I am on debian 10 (current stable) with kde (plasmashell --version → 5.14.5) . My main terminal emulator is konsole (from KDE). I want support for emojis and other special charecters on the terminal ...
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Using txt file to delete user that is not shown in the list in linux debian10
I have an updated list of user in a txt file called updatedlist.txt, inside the list is all the existing username with some username being deleted as no longer needed, I want to write a script that ...
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list all existing user in a txt file [Linux]
i am trying to make a txt file with a list of existing user in Linux debian10, all i want in the list is username of each existing user, can anyone teach me how to do it?
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Installing FileZilla3 on Debian10 without internet
I am facing this problem where there is an error while I try to install filezilla3. So as I wanted to install it offline, I used sftp to transfer FileZilla3 zip file from another computer that has ...
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I can't see anything but the terminal when running Debian 10.3.0 in VirtualBox from Windows 10
I followed the guide of this site (https://techbland.com/install-debian-9/), but for Debian 10.3.0, and when I open VirtualBox and run Debian 10.3.0 all I see is the terminal. Terminal commands work ...
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gnome-terminal geometry ignoring position
I like to add Ctrl+Alt+T as a shortcut to open the terminal, and I like the terminal to open in the bottom right corner of the screen. So, I always added the following to Keyboard Shortcuts on Debian:
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debian 10 buster gnome wayland. How to make my terminal transparent?
I just updated Debian from stretch to buster. It now uses Gnome Wayland. Before I had my terminal transparent using devilspie2. Now that doesn't work anymore. I guess it is because gnome now uses ...
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Debian Buster slow only on one terminal
Please: my main terminal is a HP Compaq LA1905wg and my other terminal is (an old) HP 1702.
Applications are running normally on the main terminal, but if I drag any of them to the 1702 my whole ...
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Linux terminal very slow to load
I'm using debian-9 xfce. When I open terminal or open a new tab in terminal it takes 7/8 seconds to load. It was working fine but suddenly terminal started taking a long time to load. After opening ...
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Unable to shutdown / reboot my Debian 10 server
I'm trying to reboot my Debian 10 server but all I get is command not found.
I've tried:
shutdown
reboot
restart
poweroff
but nothing works. I found this thread but when I try to run any of this with ...
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backup GPT table is corrupt. Running fdisk
I went to check my disk with fdisk -l and came up with one that says the The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used.
I'm not sure which disk it is referring to ...
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How to automatically open several windows at startup on Debian
Is there any way to open several windows at startup (and possibly put them in two virtual desktops)? These include for example terminals (to be cd-ed at a specific directory each), file browser and ...
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Can not use apt-get update for Debian
I cannot access full permission and terminal always show message below.
alex@debian:/$ apt-get update
Reading package lists... Done
W: chmod 0700 of directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial failed - ...
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Task bar missing on Debian Linux
on my PC, Debian Linux OS, my Taskbar on boot, show's and quickly hides and repeats the display toggle a couple more times before it hides completely, Every file on my PC works Just fine, except the ...
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Linux Mint Debian - Change terminal title to servername
I am using the standard terminal and i want to change the terminal title after connecting via ssh to a other server.
Is there a possible way?
Thanks ya!
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How do I lock the terminal screen from the terminal?
Related to https://askubuntu.com/questions/7776/how-do-i-lock-the-desktop-screen-via-command-line but not the same answer.
How do I lock the terminal screen from the terminal in Linux? On HP-UX it ...
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How to select text in terminal? (linux debian)
sometimes I got more than 3000 lines in the terminal and I need copy all them, I'm wondering how can I "select all" content in Debian terminal?
when click Edit -->Select All from the terminal, this ...
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How to run a python script in a terminal upon login?
I have my Debian virtual machine set to automatically login, and I want to make it so that, when the auto-login occurs, a terminal will open and run the command
python /home/pymodbus/examples/common/...
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Is it possible to open a gnome application group from the terminal
Hello I was just wondering if there is any way to launch a gnome application group from the terminal right now the only way I see to do it is by going into activities and clicking on the desired group'...
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Changed all files on computer to 0777 by accident
I only wanted to change the permissions of a folder which contains a lot of other folders and files, but ended up changing everything from root ( / ).
I searched for "change permissions of all files ...
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Connecting to a wireless network (open and protected) from terminal
I'm trying to connect my RTL8188CU chip to any network on Debian Jessie,
but with no success from terminal.
I need to do this consistently and at any time required.
I have tried several suggestions ...
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Opening programs from their directories
I am having some troubles while opening files through terminal. For example when I go to PhpStorm directory cd /home/downloads/phpstorm/ and I'm entering phpstorm.sh it is not opening saying there is ...
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disable italic font in gnome-terminal
I use gnome-terminal on Debian 8 with Source Code Pro Regular as the font (the font comes with the TeXLive distribution).
How can I disable the use of italics universally in the terminal?
One ...
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Establishing SSH connection on a local machine to a system running within VirtualBox
I'm running Debian on a Virtual box on Mac OS X. On the same machine, I would like to connect to Debian from the mac terminal. Simply put, I want to execute commands by Mac terminal not by writing ...
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Is it possible to automatically compile a LaTeX document through terminal using TeXworks?
I want to create an alias to automatically compile the main .tex file of a big document in LaTeX under Debian Wheezy.
That means I need a shell command to do so. Is this possible? I am currently ...
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System stops running
I'm using Debian (3.2.63-2+deb7u2 x86_64) as a base to run extremely time consuming calculations. My problem is that, after some time of working (several weeks), and even using a small load of ...
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Tmux not working in Xterm on Debian Stable
I'm trying to use tmux on my computer and it runs perfectly as root, but I'd rather run it under my own account. When I run it with my account, I get a variety of error messages that include "Cannot ...
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how can i clear the previous dependency check in debian terminal
i was trying to install few tools under my debian-linux but whenever i tried to install new one with dependency it remembers the old one
Background :
Yesterday i tried to install master pdf editor ...
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How can I get back to last used directory in a Linux shell?
How can I get back to the last directory used on a Linux shell?
For example: I open a new shell (or a log in a different console shell) and I write :
root@vignesh : cd /root/Desktop
This will ...
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How to check IP conflicts in Linux terminal
Is it there any way to check whether my IP gets conflicted with any other IP at my network?
I'm using Debian system. What are the effective ways or any command to test the network?
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Connect to wifi via bash script in Debian
This command seems to be kinda outdated because it only supports wep:
iwconfig wlan0 essid WIFI_NETWORK key s:WIFI_PASSWORD
dhclient wlan0
I found an alternative way that supports wpa2, but it ...
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Issues changing default terminal in Debian
I've installed gnome-terminal on my Debian PC which is running KDE on top of it. I've tried to replace default terminal emulator using "default applications" and sudo update-alternatives –config x-...
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'screen.linux': unknown terminal type
When I run clear I get:
'screen.linux': unknown terminal type
I get this error message when, on a Debian 7 machine running the OpenVZ kernel, from within a screen session, I vzctl enter into a ...
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Ctrl+Shift+C/V does not work Debian 8 Jessie
I’ve just installed Debian 8 Jessie with Cinnamon 2.2 and launched gnome-terminal. But I can’t copy/paste text using keyboard: pressing ctrl+shift+C/V only causes language switch. What can I do to fix ...
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Program built from source is unrecognized by the terminal but if i do it with sudo
i've built a program from source in /usr/local/sbin but now if in a terminal i write "program-name" the terminal say that the command was not found. The program is seen by the terminal only if i do "...
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Add minimize and maximize buttons in Debian 8
In previous versions I could do this with
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.overrides button-layout close,minimize,maximize:
but now I get error no such key "button-layout"
In GUI there is no button-...
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Debian, doesn't work the option “Open in the terminal”
Opening nautilus and using the usual right-click and then clicking on "open the terminal" nothing happens. This has happened after (I think) the daily update of Debian or the installation of ...
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