What can I do if bash stops echoing?
One of the applications I use at work sometimes screws with my bash and so I don’t see my own input anymore. I.e.
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How to disable mouse support in terminal?
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.
What is the right way to consistently mangle bash terminal?
I’m on OSX 10.11.1 and occasionally my bash terminal gets mangled. It often happens when I accidentally cat a binary file. The result can be seen on the image below. The output becomes weird, and I can’t type ascii characters anymore.
Disable scroll inside Xfce terminal / Avoid scrolling through command history
Is there a way to disable scrolling through command history for the Xfce terminal? I don’t wish to rely on palm rejection, I’d just like it disabled when I’m using the terminal. Specifically I’m talking about not cycling through previous commands at the prompt when scrolling with mouse/touchpad.
Is there a command to display colors when giving hex value in terminal?
How can I display colors in terminal to handle hexadecimal color values ?
It can be useful for theming, XResources etc.
For example :
How to clean stdout/stderr color output
I have a program that would output something like this:
Prevent the line discipline from handling control characters
When you send a control character from the terminal, for example if you pressed Ctrl+C, the line discipline will receive the byte representing this control character (which is 0x03 in the case of Ctrl+C).
Take text “screenshot” of current terminal contents
I would like to, every 30 seconds or so, copy all text of a certain terminal or terminal emulator to a file, and display it in conky. I’m not talking about simple redirection (command > file), which doesn’t work for ncurses programs or games such as NetHack.
How to automatically record all your terminal sessions with script utility
What I want to achieve is be able to record my terminal sessions to file automatically whenever I use Yakuake/Konsole.
SSH connections running in the background don’t exit if multiple connections have been started by the same shell
Apparently, if the same shell launches multiple ssh connections to the same server, they won’t return after executing the command they’re given but will hang (Stopped (tty input)) for ever. To illustrate: