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The default GNOME desktop terminal emulator, allowing users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop.

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Vim background color doesn't render properly in GNOME terminal

I'm guessing lots of people get this problem, but I can't seem to find any other threads/questions about it anywhere. I guess it's difficult to capture in keywords. Basically, Vim doesn't draw the background color when scrolling up in places where…
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How to remember multiple tabs' session in terminal? (Alike FF session manager)

how does one "undo close-tab" in terminal? And quite related to it, is it possible to remember a session of tabs in terminal? I mean (alike Firefox) if I close all tabs in a particular terminal window, how do I open with same the next day? Its…
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Ubuntu terminal starts with the Anaconda base environment (how to correct that?)

I have downloaded and installed the Anaconda distribution for Ubuntu (18.04) from [https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/#download-section] conform instructions some weeks ago. Everything worked fine. Today I updated the packages in the Gnome…
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How do I get Ctrl-Backspace to delete a word in vim within gnome-terminal?

I'd like Ctrl-Backspace to delete the current word in vim insert mode. From within xterm I can pull this off via :inoremap but in gnome-terminal I cannot figure out a way to make it happen. When in vim insert mode, if I type control-v…
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How to change VIM cursor shape while in different modes in Gnome Terminal

I would like to change VIM's (not gVIM's) cursor depending on what mode I am currently in. I would like: Normal & Visual modes = block cursor Insert & Command modes = I beam cursor I tried adding the following code to .vimrc but it did not work.…
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Annoying padding between tmux bar and bottom of terminal window when maximised

I am using tmux inside of a gnome-terminal. When I first open a window (with the default size being 80x24) the tmux bar sits snugly at the bottom of the window. When I maximise the terminal window, however, an annoyingly large gap appears underneath…
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Get the actual geometry of a gnome-terminal

in X I know you can get the geometry of a window with xwininfo. Unfortunately, if i retrieve such geometry from a gnome-terminal and use that to start another one with gnome-terminal --geometry ..., the two windows' top and left don't match. Indeed,…
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Open a terminal via gnome-terminal then execute command, error : "failed to execute child process""

Via a bash command, I want open a terminal and, from the new terminal, execute a simple bash command. I tried: gnome-terminal -- "/bin/bash -c ls" But I got this error: I don't understand the error and I cannot find an example anywhere for…
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How to change gnome-terminal title in Ubuntu 10

I've tried setting my PROMPT_COMMAND variable: PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;"myWindowTitle"\007"' but something changes my tab (or the whole terminal title) to 'user@hostname:/current/path', thus PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne…
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zsh tab completion bug on ubuntu

I'm getting a really annoying bug here: % git s becomes % git sgit s send-email -- send collection of patches as emails send-pack -- push objects over git protocol to another repository ... It just duplicates the command. If I…
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Opening new gnome-terminal (v3.28+) with multiple tabs and different commands

It seems the behavior of gnome-terminal has changed between the version shipped with Ubuntu 14 (v3.6?) and Ubuntu 18 (v3.28). I have a script that opens a new gnome-terminal with a bunch of tabs setup to different directories for my development, and…
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Rails console on linux always shows \r at end of every line

A standard rails console on a long running rails project has always worked fine on macOS. Recently switched to Ubuntu 18.04, and the rails console in bash and gnome-terminal will always append a \r at the end of every line like so: Loading…
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SED: copy lines from a file to specific line in another file

I can do this using the following example. The 1st command will output the lines 16...80 from file1 to patch, while the 2nd will insert the contents of patch after line 18 to file2: sed -n 16,80p file1>patch sed -i 18rpatch file2 However, I would…
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curl command not executing via shell script in bash

I'm learning shell scripting! for the same I've tried downloading the facebook page using curl on ubuntu terminal. t.sh content vi@vi-Dell-7537(Desktop) $ cat t.sh curlCmd="curl \"https://www.facebook.com/vivekkumar27june88\"" echo…
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Control + space vim key binding in normal mode does not work

I want to map control+space to :bnext in order to forward switch in normal mode. So I added following to my .vimrc: nnoremap :bn For backward search following nnoremap :bp However, this solution does…
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