What are pseudo terminals (pty/tty)?
This might be really basic question but I want to understand it thoroughly.
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Can’t apply brightness to terminal’s background color
I have a problem with colors in my terminal emulator. I am using LXTerminal as my terminal emulator and LXDE as my desktop environment.
What does ‘script /dev/null’ do?
Every time I log into a VM with root, su into a user account, and try to use screen it throws an error:
Disable screen blanking on text console
I’m running linux clusters, mostly on SLES10. The servers are mostly blades, accessed via remote console. There is a real console in the server room, but switched off.
How are long command lines ( > $COLUMNS ) automatically wrapped to a new line?
There are several points where I/O is passed through, some of which (to my knowledge) are the shell, pty, tty, termios, terminal emulator application. In most terminal emulators, long command lines (ones that exceed current $COLUMNS) are wrapped to a new line before the user submits the command by pressing Enter. Also, the line is wrapped backward to the line above when the appropriate number of characters are removed from the command line as one would expect.
Which terminal type am I using?
I have tested this with both Ubuntu 12.04 and Debian 7. When I do
Understanding Return, Enter, and stty icrlf
In Ubuntu/gnome-terminal, if I run:
How can I switch between ttys without using screen?
So let’s say you boot up your Linux install all the way to the desktop. You start up a gnome-terminal/konsole/whatever so you have a tty to enter commands to.
How to read over 4k input without new lines on a terminal?
So I have a lot of data WITHOUT NEW LINES on the clipboard (it’s a large SVG file on one line). I went
Output file contents while they change
I want to output a file’s contents while they change, for example if I have the file foobar and I do: