What sequence does PuTTY send for ALT + DEL
When I connect to my Debian Wheezy Beta 4 server with PuTTY 0.62 on Windows 7 I'm experiencing a problem. My login shell is Zsh and it is configured to handle ALT+DEL for the action delete-word...
View Articleis there a way to save what's printed on the display with gnu screen?
I like to save everything I do on the command line, for example when I upgrade something and want to read back how the upgrade went etc..Usually with Mac OSX and Terminal you can scroll back as much as...
View Articlecannot execute binary file python on mac local machine
python --version shows that I have version 2.7.10 installed on my mac, it's located in /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7 trying to execute python from terminal raised the error:...
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How to boot Kali Linux live system directly to text terminal?
I have a Kali Linux live system installed on a USB with encrypted persistence. Unfortunately during upgrade there were issues and GUI doesn't load. I'm trying to recover data from the encrypted...
View ArticleShared connection frequently closes when opening a new connection
I'm making heavy use of reusing a shared connection which I open to a remote box at the beginning of my workday.My .ssh/config looks somewhat like this:ControlMaster autoControlPath...
View ArticleCopy shell configuration from one machine to another?
I've got login to another server where shell configurations are not like I would want. For example I don't see my username and CWD on prompt, and when I press arrow key, instead of giving last entered...
View Articlegnome-terminal not openning in Ubuntu 20.04
Terminal does not open in Ubuntu 20.04, this is possibly after an upgrade of the software (apt upgrade). I am getting the following error when trying to execute /usr/bin.gnome-terminal in a...
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gnome-terminal default zoom level
I've just updated to Ubuntu 20.04, and I can't setup my terminal font to my desired size without anti-aliasing, at normal zoom level. I dislike the fuzziness.This is with font Terminus at 10 (it's...
View ArticleStarting a command in a new screen session doesn't work
I want to execute a command in a new screen session (and detach from it) but I don't get it to work. I tried to start a process in a new screen session and detach from it with this:screen -d -m...
View ArticleUsing a modern Linux computer as a VT52 Terminal for a CAEN Sy127
I have an old CAEN Sy127 high voltage supply which I would like to control from a modern linux machine. The Manual (p. 20; also there is a more thorough documentation of the communications module in...
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Zsh not recognizing ls colors
I just was introduced to Zsh and so far I am really liking the customizability.I use the following line to set up colors in .zshrc:zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors ''This gives me these colors:...
View Articlechange font color on linux terminal
i want to change the font color of everything i write in the linux terminals (eg the one accessible at ctrl+alt+f1) to green. my default tty font color is white, but i would like it to be green. i have...
View Articlebackup GPT table is corrupt. Running fdisk
I went to check my disk with fdisk -l and came up with one that says the The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used.I'm not sure which disk it is referring to but...
View ArticleHow can I read the Voltage supplied from PMBUS or SMBus
I am able to control the voltage supplied to a desktop. How can I read that voltage back using Linux terminal. I have tried i2c and hwmon and nothing seemed to have the right values.
View ArticleWhich Linux terminal emulators support wrapping on whitespace? [closed]
Do any Linux terminal emulators support wrapping on whitespace only? For example, lines should wrap like this:this is a very long line wrappedon whitespace so that words arenot brokenand not like...
View Article256 color display in linux command-line?
Is it possible to have the linux command line (no graphical interface/X server) display 256 color like most terminals do? And if not, whats stopping it from being developed?
View Articlehow to open link in terminal app in macos?
For instance if I have link with special protocol foobar:// I want to open such link in terminal.Flow:open browserfind link like foobar://bazeggsspamclick the linkbrowser redirects to the terminal and...
View ArticleUnzip Multipart Zip from Command Line
Thanks in advance for any help. I am trying to unzip a multipart zip file from the command line in OSX 10.8.5. I created the zip using zip -s 800m foo.zip foo.movThe file foo.mov is 2.7GB. So I have...
View ArticleHow to repair .zip files?
To begin with, I don't know a single thing about coding, computers, etc. It'd be nice of computer masters if my question could be answered in detail (ex: type this in, screenshot, if possible).First of...
View ArticleLaunch new terminal window via hotkey MacOS
Terminal keymap on MacOSI was searching for hours to figure out a simple way to create a hotkey shortcut to launch a new terminal window. Posting this here in case anyone else was wondering how to do...
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