Questions tagged [terminal]
A terminal is a hardware device used for entering data into and displaying information from a computer. Terminals were frequently used in the days of mainframe computers. Today, most operating systems offer text-based "terminal emulators", which replicate the functionality of a classical terminal, also referred to as a "system console".
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Is it possible to scroll past the bottom / have empty space below the cursor with Windows Terminal?
I am using Windows Terminal (1.23.13503.0) with Command Prompt as the default profile. I have others like PowerShell, Ubuntu 24.04.01 LTS.
This is not a scrollback or history issue, if I understand ...
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VS Code terminal not clearing correctly on windows 10, leading to duplicated output when programming
If I open a terminal in VS Code, any terminal (powershell, bash, cmd, etc), typing "cls" clears the currently visible lines, but I can scroll up to see that it didn't clear any of the lines ...
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How to make the ffplay window appear in front of terminal windows and get focus on macOS
When I use ffplay to play mp4 file from command line in MacOS terminal, the launched playing window is behind the term window.
Even I use -alwaysotop & -noborder options, I still have to manually ...
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In DuckDB, can there be proper UTF-8 output in duckbox mode to Windows console?
I cannot get non-ASCII characters to be properly displayed in the DuckDB console, even if the console application supports UTF-8. I have a sample CSV file encoded in UTF-8 containing a few test ...
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Copy paste behavior changes w.r.t the terminal I am in, I want ctrl c ctrl v
I have two distinct terminals with different bad behaviors.
I am on Windows.
Power shell is defined correctly to use ctrl+c ctrl+v. Cursor IDE is well defined as well.
Cursor's terminal has a break ...
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how do I get activate.bat to work using pycharm powershell as terminal [closed]
I'm trying to set up virtual env for pytest using pycharm which is using powershell for the terminal and the activate.bat is not recognized and neither is the .\activate.bat it suggests
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How does `open -a` locate an application in Mac
I have used Playwright to install Chromium
playwright install chromium
The executable is in
~/Library/Caches/ms-playwright/chromium-1187/chrome-mac/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium --use-mock-...
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Invisible text displayed in Windows 10 PowerShell [closed]
I've noticed that when using Windows PowerShell (to SSH into a computing cluster), sometimes parts of the text displayed in the terminal are missing or invisible -- if I try to select it with my ...
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How to update the terminal emulator title every time I switch window in GNU screen?
I'm used to use the terminal emulator window title in order to keep track of where I'm in setting it to "${USER}@${HOST}: ${PWD/$HOME/\~}" through a shell function executed after each cd ...
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Why aren’t ANSI escape codes moving the cursor on columns in Linux terminal as expected?
I tried to change the cursor position in the Linux terminal using, for example:
echo -e "\e[16;45H"
However, it did not work as expected. It only moved the cursor on lines and did not move ...
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VS Code Powershell - In fullscreen, Terminal text moves upward when reopening
I'm using the powershell terminal on VS Code. I fullscreen the terminal because I can see more stuff that way.
The text of the terminal moves upward after closing and reopening, but the terminal ...
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Why is data not readable in Teraterm? Could it be an issue with settings?
I'm trying to transmit data from an Omega DP41-E meter, but I keep getting a string of characters that don't make any sense. A pressure transducer (0-5 Vdc output, +E, -E, +S, -S wires) is connected ...
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Why is the Armbian GUI failing on my Raspberry Pi 5b?
I am running an install of Armbian (image comes with a GNOME environment) on a Raspberry Pi 5b.
Recently, I booted up the Raspberry Pi and was surprised to be put into a terminal instead of a GUI.
I ...
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VS Code integrated terminal: How to access suggest widget and PSReadLine MenuComplete via Ctrl+Space?
In VS Code's integrated terminal, Ctrl+Space by default triggers the terminal's suggest widget, but this doesn't show anything after e. g. <command> - or [<type>]:: although the PowerShell ...
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How do I undo actions I did via Terminal? I removed the “~/Downloads” folder in macOS after following directions
I was trying to include my Downloads folder in my iCloud backup, and came across some steps here. I followed them.
I shouldn't have, because I don't know what I'm doing when typing Terminal commands. ...
