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How can I get the current screen resolution from the command line on OS X?

How can I get the current display resolution from the command line in OS X?

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Why can't I type a tilde (~) in some Linux terminals?

A couple of days ago I stopped being able to type a tilde (~) in some Linux terminal emulators (Konsole and Kitty, it works in Xterm though).I'm using Arch Linux so when it suddenly stopped I figured...

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Why does terminal say: "You have mail"?

Any idea why my Mac terminal says: You have mail in /var/mail/lofyeHow can I make it stop saying that every time I open terminal?

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How to fix E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock. It is held by...

Recently, I have bought a 64GB SD card for dual booting Ubuntu on my computer. It works at first, but when I try to runsudo apt upgradeIt gives me this:E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock. It...

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zsh: permission denied: ~/.bash_profile

I am trying to run the following to set env, but I can not:echo 'export ethereum_home=/Users/mattthomas/ethereum'>>~/.bash_profilePermissions for .bash_profile:-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 447 Jun 17...

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Where is the .zshrc file on Mac?

I’m using iTerm and wanted to customize the look of my terminal window using Oh My ZSH!. And according to the documentation I need to change the ~/.zshrc file and add a ZSH_THEME value:Once you find a...

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How can I hide or remove the split-pane bar on the right in Mac terminal?

What do I need to do to remove the split pane sidebar on the right from the terminal window? Never used to have it and now I don't know how to get rid of it.

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Tab key working as prefix key in tmux

I've remapped my prefix key to Control-I(C-i). It works, but my Tab key now also works as a prefix key, I can't use it for things like autocomplete anymore. I don't know what is causing this, this is...

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How to enable macOS text shortcuts to the current terminal command?

I would like to know if there is a way to enable macOS keyboard shortcuts for editing text to work for the command I'm currently writing.For example, I would like:Command+← moves the cursor to the...

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How to spawn an Alacritty terminal from another Alacritty terminal that was...

I'm using a Waybar module in an Arch Linux Hyprland setup, where my .config/waybar/modules.json is set as follows:"custom/clusterteleport": {"format": " Cluster Teleport","escape": true,"on-click":...

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Is there any simple tmux/screen alternative?

I would like to connect to a terminal session/application running on different computer but without usage of terminal multiplexer as tmux or screen. I don't need split windows or sharing the terminal...

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How to delete locked app on MacOS (Catalina)

I'm trying to delete a locked app on Catalina. In recovery mode, I disabled SIP, restarted and gave Terminal Full Disk Access.Tried this:/Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Applications/Crashplan.app: Operation not...

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Cannot get Wezterm Terminal Transparent/Acrylic BG on Windows

I just installed Wezterm and my config looks like this :-local wezterm = require("wezterm")local mux = wezterm.mux-- This will hold the configuration.local config =...

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Cannot get WezTerm terminal transparent/acrylic background on Windows

I just installed WezTerm and my config looks like this :-local wezterm = require("wezterm")local mux = wezterm.mux-- This will hold the configuration.local config =...

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How to enable split horizontal/vertical shortcut on WezTerm?

I'm on macOS, and my default terminal app is WezTerm (20240203-110809-5046fc22 installed).Is there a shortcut to do horizontal/vertical split from a right click, so I don't have to access the menu...

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Tab Auto-Completion in Mac OS X when using sftp in terminal

i have been getting very frustrated lately since the readline functionality has been removed from MacOSX and Tab Auto-Completion doesn't work anymore. So i was wondering if anyone knew a good...

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Node and NPM `Command not found` [closed]

As screenshot below we can see, on Debian WSL window terminal, node: command not found and the same thing for npm.But in VScode WSL window terminal that is never happens. Node and NPM package always...

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How to switch git user at terminal?

I am trying to push a project to a remote repository from the command line.From inside my local directory, I hit:$ git pushand obtain the following error:remote: Permission to username1/repo.git denied...

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How to download chapters of a youtube video as separate video files?

A New YouTube FeatureYouTube recently enabled the option to add chapters in YouTube videos.This is done by simply adding the chapter timestamps (start time) in the description of the video.Related...

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How to change the location of settings.json file in Windows Terminal

I have a need to change the the default folder where Windows terminal is looking for settings.json file. From C:\Users%USER%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Terminal to my personal...

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