Is there a way to lock command line?
For example, in X session, I can use Ctrl–Alt–L to lock the screen, so it would ask for password to unlock and prevent somebody from messing with mine computer.
terminal
Get vertical cursor position
This might sound pretty weird, but I know how to set the vertical cursor position in Bash like this:
How to set the bash display to not show the vim text after exit?
My question is simple, but I am finding it hard to frame/explain it easily.
Fix terminal title after SSH remote logging to another machine
right now I am using an one-line perl code to change titles of my terminal bars,
How do I clear the Gnome terminal history?
When we use clear command or Ctrl+L in terminal, it clears terminal but we can still scroll back to view the last used commands. Is there a way to completely clear the terminal?
Print true color (24-bit) test pattern
How can I test that my terminal / tmux is correctly setup to display truecolor / 24-bit color / 16.8 million colours?
What do the large computers that real terminals were connected to look like?
I am studying the history of computers to better understand why Linux terminals work the way they do. I have read that in the mid 1970’s to the mid 1980’s, most people used real terminals (as opposed to terminal emulators) to communicate with large computers, this is an example of a real terminal:
Best way to use a shell with Cygwin in Windows 7
The core of Babun consists of a pre-configured Cygwin. Cygwin is a
great tool, but there’s a lot of quirks and tricks that makes you lose
a lot of time to make it actually ‘usable’. Not only does babun solve
most of these problems, but also contains a lot of vital packages, so
that you can be productive from the very first minute.
How does clear command work?
I was recently trying to learn more about how the shell works and was looking at how the clear command works. The executable is located in /usr/bin/clear and it seems to print out a bunch of blank lines (equal to the height of the terminal) and puts the cursor at the top-left of the terminal.
Disable CTRL-D from closing my window with the terminator terminal emulator)
I am often logged in several SSH sessions at once. To logout from several sessions, I press CTRL+d, until I am back on my local machine. However, I occasionally press it once too many, and my terminal exits. Is there a way to make CTRL+d unable to close my terminal ? I am using terminator … Read more