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.…
mreq
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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 and…
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…
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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 know…
Rahul Tapali
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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…
fruse
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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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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…
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Open Vim in Xfce4 Terminal from Thunar
I am using Xubuntu 16.04. I have set the default application to Vim for plain text files in Thunar. By default Vim opens in XTerm and not in Xfce Terminal. I would like for it to default to Xfce4 Terminal.
In Thunar the Open Terminal Here context…
jbrock
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Xubuntu - change default terminal to Terminator
I can't find in the Xubuntu 14.04 settings where the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+T is associated to the xfce4 terminal. I'd like to associate that shortcut to terminator. How can I do it?
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