Questions tagged [xfce4-terminal]
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Copy current terminal prompt to clipboard
Is there a way to copy the currently written content of the bash prompt? Say I wrote: ping www.google.com so that the lines in terminal looks like: petr@sova:~$ ping www.google.com and didn't hit return yet. I want to copy that text to clipboard. Is…
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Alert when terminal program finishes running?
I am running Xubuntu 15.04, but maybe this question has a general solution for all Ubuntu flavours. I usually leave long computations running in a terminal window, which may take from a couple of minutes, to hours, or days. It would be nice if I…
a06e
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Can't set "Alt+Ctrl+T" to launch terminal in xfce4
I followed normal steps to assign Alt + Ctrl + T to open a terminal window. (Menu → Settings Manager → Keyboard → Application Shortcuts → Add and follow steps) but it just doesn't seem to work. I was following this: How to open terminal on Xubuntu…
842Mono
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Change color scheme for xfce4 terminal manually
I want to bind a shortcut to change my solarized color schemes (dark and light). For this purpose I need to know a command for terminal to change its color scheme, but I haven't found such one and I have to go time after time to preferences menu and…
mitrx
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Open XFCE Terminal Window and Run command in same Window
I would like to start 'xfce4-terminal' and then run a command but finish with a prompt to repeat the command. I use the software 'todo.txt' and like to have it open in a small window which I can refer to and add entries, etc. At the moment, I have…
Paul Littlefield
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Why do I have no prompt in terminal on XFCE in ubuntu 12.04
I have Ubuntu 12.04 and have tried a few desktop environments. I am currently testing out Xfce. It has a terminal emulator called "Terminal". When I launch it, I just get a black screen. Xterm, UXTerm and Konsole all work normally Where's my prompt?
TecBrat
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How to open terminal on Xubuntu?
I have Xubuntu running my mouse does not working. I was trying to open terminal using Ctrl + Alt + T . It was not worked and googled I found that opening terminal shortcut will not work. Now I want to open terminal through Application but I don't…
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Prevent (xfce) terminal from scrolling with output
I'm running Xubuntu. When I run something that produces a lot of output to the terminal (such as my code, generally....!) I find that it is not possible to "freeze" the screen, to take a look at a particular point in the run. For example: my code is…
Dave
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How can I copy text from xfce4 terminal emulator to the clipboard?
I want to be able to select certain text with mouse to copy and paste it to the commandline. The "select" and "paste from clipboard/primary selection" part works, but I am unable to copy the selection to the clipboard (verified with xsel ). So far I…
abukaj
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How to move/resize xfce4-terminal using the command line?
How do I move and resize the xfce4-terminal by command line? The problem is that the command echo -ne '\e[3;0;0t' does not re-position my xfce4-terminal and has no apparent affect. man xfce4-terminal and other answers suggest it should.…
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Configure xfce4-terminal to recognize ANSI OSC 52 escape sequences to control the clipboard
tmux can put text into the system clipboard using ANSI OSC ( Operating System Control ) 52 escape sequences, but the terminal emulator needs to recognize them. xfce4-terminal, out-of-the-box doesn't seem to recognize them. Would anybody know how to…
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Unable to type in a terminal
When I open a terminal no cursor appears, and no text, I just get a blank black screen. I am able to run commands by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2. I have minimal understanding of typing code etc. (Using Ubuntu 14.04 with Xfce interface.) Thank you if you're…
Lake
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How can I make a terminal with 3 tabs appear after startup?
Xubuntu 13.10 I would like to have xfce4-terminal appear automatically after logging in. I would like to have this instance of the terminal have 3 tabs, the first one being title htop , the second one titled man and the last one titled Stuff .…
henry
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Unwanted symbols while pasting text on to terminal
I get 0~ symbol before the text and 1~ after the text while pasting it on to the terminal window. Is it related to some edits that I made in .bashrc or .vimrc files? Eg: I see '0~allowed1~' when I press ctrl+shift+v while pasting the text 'allowed'
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Xubuntu 17.10 (and later): cannot change xfce4-terminal keyboard shortcuts
I've just installed xubuntu 17.10 and cannot change xfce4-terminal keyboard shortcuts. I tried enabling editable accelerators (according to http://docs.xfce.org/faq ), running: Appearance -> Settings -> Menus and Buttons -> Enable editable…