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How can I open Terminal with a keyboard shortcut?
To open terminal press super + T
Super key = Windows key
EDIT:
To customize your shortcut key:
Open System settings -- > Keyboard --> Applications
Now select terminal on right side of window, ...
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How can I disable natural copy & paste in Terminal?
The ability to paste clipboard contents into the terminal using the standard Ctrl + V shortcut is called "natural-copy-paste" and you can disable it in the dconf settings.
If you haven't already done ...
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How do you have Ctrl + Alt + T duplicate a terminal tab in Freya?
just set org.pantheon.terminal.settings.follow-last-tab in dconf to true.
Or you can execute in terminal:
gsettings set org.pantheon.terminal.settings follow-last-tab true
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Update with terminal instead of AppCenter
elementaryOS natively supports two different packaging formats, deb packages and Flatpaks.
The system's deb packages are managed via the Aptitude package manager while Flatpaks are maintained ...
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How can I make Ctrl+D not close the tab in Pantheon Terminal?
You can disable save-exited-tabs and then Ctrl+D can be used for bash. Just run:
gsettings set org.pantheon.terminal.settings save-exited-tabs false
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How can I disable natural copy & paste in Terminal?
If you prefer to do things in the terminal, simply run:
gsettings set io.elementary.terminal.settings natural-copy-paste false
Before Elementary OS 5.0, it was:
gsettings set org.pantheon.terminal....
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Pantheon-terminal key binds
In the Pantheon Terminal you can move between terminal tabs with Ctrl+Shift+← and Ctrl+Shift+→ respectively.
You might as well be interested in List of keyboard shortcuts for Terminal
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How can I change the default Terminal font?
For versions 5.0 above:
gsettings set io.elementary.terminal.settings font 'FiraCode 10'
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Drop down terminal in elementary OS?
I have a drop-down branch for pantheon-terminal
https://code.launchpad.net/~parnold-x/pantheon-terminal/drop-down
How to compile:
sudo apt-get build-dep pantheon-terminal
bzr branch lp:~parnold-x/...
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Name of elementary OS terminal (to open new terminal window from within Terminal)
I know this is an old thread, but the approved answer is now incorrect and this is still the top Google link for this question, so in new versions of Elementary OS, the terminal is called io....
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How to disable last working directory in pantheon-terminal?
You must actually change those keys in gsettings not in the gschema. So use for example the terminal with:
gsettings set org.pantheon.terminal.settings follow-last-tab false
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Is there a way to create bookmark on Pantheon Files using terminal?
The simplest way I can think of is to write the location that you want to bookmark to the bookmarks file, for example:
echo "file:///home/user/location Place" >> ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks
Of ...
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Open a new tab in terminal instead of a new window?
pantheon-terminal actually has an undocumented command line option -w with which you can specify a working directory for the new terminal.
This option also handily checks for already existing pantheon-...
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Name of elementary OS terminal (to open new terminal window from within Terminal)
The command to run is:
pantheon-terminal
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no way to run commands as a login shell in terminal
Setting the shell key to bash --login doesn't work, however I managed to fix that with the following workaround:
create a file named bashlogin in /bin directory with the following content
#!/bin/sh
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Drop down terminal in elementary OS?
For a drop down terminal you can either use guake drop down terminal
or terra: mix of guake and terminal emulation
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How can I disable natural copy & paste in Terminal?
For Elementary OS 5.x Juno, it has been set to a new location:
gsettings set io.elementary.terminal.settings natural-copy-paste false
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How can I change the default Terminal font?
If you already havent, install elementary-tweaks (For elementary freya):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mpstark/elementary-tweaks-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install elementary-tweaks
Then ...
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Elementary Tweaks - How can I Toggle "Prefer Dark Theme" via Terminal?
I don't think there is an command for this, but you can edit a file.
Create/edit the following file:
~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
And change it to this:
[Settings]
gtk-application-prefer-dark-...
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In which programming language elementary OS terminal is written?
The terminal in elementary OS is written in Vala.
You can see information about Pantheon Terminal and even read the source code on its Launchpad page.
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How can I opening a directory from the terminal in a new session?
It looks like xdg-open . is what you're looking for. I'm able to close Terminal without quitting Files.
The other Terminal output can be ignored
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Shortcut to change the pantheon-terminal font size
Shift + Ctrl + + for increasing
Ctrl + - for decreasing font size.
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How can I clear and reset the buffer in Terminal?
The reset command might be what you are looking for.
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How to set alternative terminal as default
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec gnome-terminal
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec-arg ''
If you want to set a terminal other than ...
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How can I find out what a Terminal command will do before I run it?
There's a great online tool called ExplainShell that will break down the command into its individual parts and explain what each part does.
For example, see this page which explains the following ...
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How to run multiple command sequentially?
You can make shell scripts to achieve this. A shell script usually starts with #!/bin/bash. Let's say you want to execute sudo apt update and ls but you don't want to type it every time. So a shell ...
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How can I run a Terminal command as "root"?
The main key word/phrase to find solution is are you root ?
That means the command needs root privileges to run.
From man page of sudo
sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the ...
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"could not find a distribution template for Ubuntu/n/a" error in elementary OS
The possible fix:
sudo apt-get install gksu # If not installed
sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 # If you get Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" error
Now gksudo nano /etc/...
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How to use terminal in "incognito mode'?
Disable Previous Tabs
gsettings set org.pantheon.terminal.settings remember-tabs false
Incognito Mode
unset HISTFILE
See this answer for how to make this permanent.
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