I often use ctrl+c to copy text from some gui application and then paste it into my terminal emulator (terminator), using right-mouse-click-menu and paste. Sometimes I forget that the clipboard contains several lines, which when pasted into bash causes each line to be “executed”
For what I have tried, TAB and C-i in .inputrc seems to mean the same thing, whatever I bind to one is bound to the other. I know that originally, it was the same thing and that this behavior is kind of inherited from the old times but nowadays, apart from terminal emulators, all X applications makes the difference between a C-i and a TAB press.
I’m asking this question while using xfce4-terminal, but I’m interested in a general solution: is there a way to stop a terminal emulator announcing mouse support in consoles? I need mouse-select and copy-paste much more frequent that I need mouse support in vim or wherever.
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04. On 14.04 I additionally installed Terminology.
Linux has 7 virtual consoles, which correspond to 7 device files /dev/tty[n].
If you fire up a terminal and call an executable (assuming one that’s line oriented for simplicity) you get a reply to the command from the executable. How does this get printed to you (the user)? Does the terminal do something like pexpect? (poll waiting for output) or what? How does it get notified of output to be printed out? And how does a terminal start a program? (Is it something akin to python’s os.fork()? ) I’m puzzled how a terminal works, I’ve been playing with some terminal emulator and I still don’t get how all this magic works. I’m looking at the source of konsole (kde) and yakuake (possibly uses konsole) an I can’t get where all that magic happens.
How can I test that my terminal / tmux is correctly setup to display truecolor / 24-bit color / 16.8 million colours?
Not totally sure if this is the right place but here goes.