GNU Screen doesn’t echo unicode characters correct
When I do this in my terminal:
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What is the terminal’s graphic API?
How can certain programs set background and font colors, write characters to the same location on screen (e.g. to the third row, fifth column) more than once?
Any command in my terminal that exits with non-zero code closes my terminal window
At first this was a bit funny, like playing “Bash Roulette”
…but now it’s getting old lol
How Linux uses /dev/tty and /dev/tty0
I can see the difference between /dev/tty and /dev/tty0 by testing the provided method from this question. But I really wonder about the practical usage of those devices (like situations they will be used).
Copy text from one terminal into another
I am logged into ssh to a university account from my home computer. Then I find a file that I want to copy onto my local system. So I open a new shell terminal and am about to use scp to copy that file onto my system. But the path to the file on the system I am ssh‘ed into is long so I select it with the mouse and then paste it with the mouse into the other locally connected terminal.
What are the characters printed when Alt+Arrow keys are pressed?
When I press AltUp, A printed to terminal screen. Same thing happened when I pressed AltDown but B is printed instead.
Why do backgrounded processes sometimes stop spontaneously?
Sometimes, some time after I’ve backgrounded a process with bg in bash, when I press Enter in the same shell to redisplay the prompt (just to check that I’m still in bash when some output from the background process has been displayed), the background process seems to stop spontaneously.
How to prevent random console output from breaking the terminal?
There are many questions on SE that show how to recover from terminal broken by cat /dev/urandom. For those that are unfamiliar with this issue – here what it is about: