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For questions about writing programs to communicate with the GNOME Terminal application (or about modifying its internals). DO NOT add this tag simply because you happen to use this terminal when interacting with a program that could use other terminals equally well.

The default GNOME desktop terminal emulator, allowing users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop.

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Save stdout to hex file

I have my own command line program which I am running on the terminal. How might I redirect the output from this program to file so that I can see a hex representation of it? I also wish the control characters outputted from the program to be saved…
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Indicate mode in GNOME Terminal vim

Possible Duplicate: How to change VIM cursor shape while in different modes in Gnome Terminal I tried making GNOME Terminal vim mimic GVim's default behavior of using a white block for command mode and a vertical pipe (aka I beam) for insert mode…
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How to include an additional pathname in gnome-launcher

I used the following command to create a launcher gnome-desktop-item-edit --create-new ~/Desktop It created a launcher of my shell scripting file. My shell scripting file includes opening of some of the other files . These files are not opening in…
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Escape characters not working in gnome-shell

If I run the code in my own terminal using sh projectbingo.sh it shows as: Hello World hi When I run the following code : gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=tushar -x ./projectbingo.sh A new terminal pops out but shows…
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gnome-open window positioning

As some super users would know: gnome-open /home/username/somefile.txt will open a window in gnome. Is it possible to open a window and place it a corner of the window from the command line? gnome-open /home/username/somefile.txt -top -left (I…
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Error starting gnome-terminal from /etc/rc.local ubuntu 12.04

I am unable to start gnome-terminal from rc.local , with the following error. ** (gnome-terminal:1304): WARNING **: Command line `dbus-launch --autolaunch=bd53fdd726adb41172f458c100000007 --binary-syntax --close-stderr' exited with non-zero exit…
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Edit a file with single quotes in the filename in Vim

I've run into an odd problem in Vim. I would like to drag and drop a file from my desktop or file manager into Vim and edit it. Gvim handles this behavior correctly. When I attempt to do the same thing in console Vim, the path to the file name is…
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Shell script statements not running one after one

I wrote a shell script that calls some other shell scripts in a new terminal window. It was working fine on my computer. its like this #!/bin/sh gnome-terminal -e "sh one.sh" zenity --info --text "exed one" gnome-terminal -e "sh 2.sh" zenity --info…
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Terminal window won't stay open when running popen via ssh in Python

I'm writing a Python program that runs on Linux server. It monitors some log file and displays lines from that log file in a GUI, based on a given keyword. I added a new feature that opens a terminal window with "less" showing the line that the user…
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How to choose a default tab focus in gnome-terminal?

I have a bash script which opens several tabs inside one window and I want to choose one tabe to be the default focus for example the below script opens 3 tabs on one window: gnome-terminal --tab --geometry="100x20" --title="TAB1" -- bash -ic…
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Bash: Script Calling Gnome Terminal Leads To Child Process Error?

I'm trying to have a script open a new terminal window, and then call another script in that terminal. I'm getting the error: There was an error creating the child process for this terminal I believe it has something to do with the calling script…
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How can new gnome terminal receive command in C

I have tried to write a program that run in ubuntu terminal .Program will open a new gnome terminal and run command in that new terminal to open new abcd.txt using vim.And then when i Ctrl+C in the first terminal which run the program ,new gnome…
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Wrong terminal emulator persists in VSCode

I'm currently using Debian Buster (10): installed a new terminal emulator (Alacritty) along with a new shell (ZSH); and configured my system to use this new terminal & shell as the defaults. Unfortunately, VScode continues--regardless of the changes…
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How to enable access to the atd service for one user and deny for another in CentOS 8?

Is it possible to restrict access to the service for specific user and allow for another?
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Python's os.system within a for loop: how to wait for a command to finish before re-starting the loop?

I am new in using os.system (in Python 3) and am trying to execute a program that I would normally run in a Linux terminal. I need to iterate a few times and am using something like the following loop: for item in item_list: …
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