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Questions tagged [virtual-terminal]

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How do I switch between virtual terminals in a guest system?

I want to access virtual consoles in my Ubuntu guests running VirtualBox with Ubuntu guest. However, even if the focus is within the guest window, if I press Ctrl+F1 thru F6 I move in a virtual terminal of the host, not the guest. How do I switch to…
lurscher
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How can I use the mouse in a virtual terminal?

Lately I saw some of my friends using a mouse to copy & paste text around in the virtual terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F1). I was amazed that this was possible and would like to use this too. He wasn't sure how this was possible on his machine, but it doesn't…
gertvdijk
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Run both at the same time, Windows and Ubuntu

I had read in some sites that it is possible to run two OS'es in the same machine at the same time through a Virtual Machine software, so you can switch Virtual Terminals with keyboard hotkeys and be on Ubuntu browsing the web and switch to Windows…
Rodrigo Oliveira
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terra terminal for ubuntu 14.04

I would like to try the terra terminal but the ppa doesn't work for 14.04. Does terra support 14.04? If so, where can I find it?
dustin
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How to detect the number of opened terminals by the user

I am using Ubuntu and can manually change the bash shell prompt color to green using export PS1="\e[0;32m[\u@\h \W]\$ \e[m" However, I want the shell prompt color to automatically change whenever I open a new terminal or tab. I am aware that the…
manav m-n
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reset or completely remove an installation/htop

I usually use htop in tty when I need to kill a program... or whatever hangs or slows down my pc,now I screwed it up. I tried making changes in htop from the 'setup' option which is accessed by pressing F2 key,and by mistake filled the screen and…
abhishek khandal
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How can I Simultaneous login to all the Virtual Terminals?

This is a Ubuntu 12.04 Minimal Install. When I scroll across these 6 terminals using Ctrl+Alt+F1 through Ctrl+Alt+F6 , I have to independently login each of them; one-by-one. Is their any way out that I may login to all of these 6 terminals in one…
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Is it possible to have dual monitors using a virtual terminal?

I'm a bit of a command line nuthead. I have a computer with dual monitors. Its setup works just fine in X11 - dual monitors, where my desktop stretches all the way across. However, what I would like is to replicate that behavior when I'm using the…
Wayne Werner
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Unlimited Terminal Scrollback in Server Edition?

Fairly simple question. I have a very powerful Ubuntu 14.04 server edition VM that I connect to via console (unless XenCenter isn't console). I found how to increase it to a set number, but is there a way to make it actually unlimited? I tried…
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Disable CTRL+ALT+F4 switching to virtual terminal

Is there a way that I can stop the Ctrl+Alt+F4 key combination from switching to a virtual terminal? I still want the other key combinations to switch to terminals - I just want to change the F4 one because I often use that keyboard shortcut in a…
Mario
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Panel apps try to launch in xterm, even though it isn't installed

I have some panel applications that launch terminals, but when I click on them, they say xterm failed. Well yeah, xterm isn't installed, nor do I want it. I want mate-terminal to come up instead. How do I configure that to happen? This is Ubuntu…
j0h
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Run Windows and Ubuntu in parallel

I have read about VirtualBox that in VirtualBox we can run both Windows and Ubuntu in parallel, but it seems that for this we have to make one host and install the other one in it using VirtualBox. I am already using both Ubuntu and Windows on my…
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Changing the colors of lxterminal

How can I change the default colors of the lxterminal in Lubuntu using .bashrc?
user264934
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How do I change my monitor's resolution when working in a virtual terminal?

When using a virtual terminal with an external monitor, I would like to set the resolution to the monitors optimal resolution, but I'm not sure how. Does anyone know how I would go about doing this?
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How do I display Chinese/Japanese characters in a Linux VT console?

I have an installer program which runs in a default Ubuntu 12.04 Linux VT console and uses the "dialog" program to display simple graphical input boxes. After the user selects either Chinese or Japanese and my installer sets the LANG=zh_CN.utf8 and…
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