In Linux you can access up to 6 different terminals plus the X display.  In Mint, the shortcut for the X display is ctrl + alt + f8 instead of f7. Since f7 shows me log messages of VirtualBox and Timidity++, I'm assuming its the text version of the X display.  I'm using Cinnamon as a WM and would like to use Unity in a different terminal.  Is that even possible?
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How can I run two instance of, e.g. GNOME, on my computer at once?  I know how to change the virtual terminal, but I can't work out how to start a second instance of gnome - it just exits telling me that the X session is locked.  EDIT: The other thing that I would really like to know is how to run two different desktops at once - e.g. XFCE and GNOME.  I know that I can change the default desktop in .xinitrc or something like that, but then I would have to do so every time - is there any way to select the desktop type when creating the new XSession?
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I have a terminal open and want to launch another one. I hit the Windows key, type 'terminal' and hit Enter...and I'm warped to my first terminal.  I can hit Control+Enter to launch a new terminal. This is unnatural to me. Can I change the key bindings so that Enter will launch a new instance and Control+Enter will warp to the existing one?  Edit: I'm interested in all applications, not just a terminal.
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GNOME Terminal shows up in several places:   launchers which start terminal commands the Launch Terminal keyboard shortcut the menu items added by nautilus-open-terminal   Does each of these explicitly specify GNOME Terminal, or is there some centralized setting they reference?  I have checked for:   A setting in System Settings ▸ System Info ▸ Default Applications An analog of  or  An environment variable containing gnome-terminal. This one actually looks hopeful:  $ env | grep gnome-terminal COLORTERM=gnome-terminal   but I'm not sure where to go with it.   If such a setting exists, my goal is to change it to use a different terminal emulator by default.
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I am using Unity desktop environment. I find it difficult to switch between multiple open applications frequently. I currently use the ALT+TAB to get list of open applications and then switch to the required one. I want to know whether we can switch directly to the required application by somehow ordering the applications and then switching to required application by some shortcut like ALT+3 for third application. Thanks.
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I'm new to Ubuntu (and Linux in general).  Sometimes when looking at programs in the Ubuntu Software Center, I see things about the programs being 'for the GTK+ environment', or 'for GNOME', or a whole lot of other things.  All I know is that I've got Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and what I'm seeing through my monitor appears to be the controversial Unity interface.  What are these other things I see mentioned in the descriptions of programs (such as KDE, GTK, QT, GNOME, GNOME 'shell', etc.)?  Are they Linux GUIs that are alternatives to Unity?  Are they dependencies that I need to have?    I've spent the last several months getting used to Ubuntu in its present form (though I confess, I have played around with Compiz, which is fun as hell).  Will these other things completely turn my world upside down if I use them?
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I used to use Alt+number to switch between gnome-terminal tabs. In my recent 19.10 installation, this does not work. When I press Alt+1, instead of switching tab, the command line shows this: (arg: 1)   and if I press Alt+2, it becomes: (arg: 12)   I checked the options in gnome-terminal, it is set to use Alt+number to switch between tabs. I would like to know which application is hijacking the hotkey, and how to fix it. PS. I do NOT want to use Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn for this. Thanks.
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In a terminal I have Alt-C and Alt-V shortcuts to copy/paste.  That's why I want make the same to system wide.  How to remap system wide shortcuts Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V to Alt-C and Alt-V?  Ubuntu 18.04
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I would like to make my terminal's command prompt shorter. Currently I am using Python 's virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper so that is causing lots of extra text to be displayed in my command prompt. I need to shorten that up to the bare minimum so I'd like to take this:  (pytutorial)sez@sez-laptop:~/.virtualenvs/nettuts/firstblog$   and ideally turn it into   (pyt)sez:~/.virtualenvs/nettuts/firstblog$   or maybe something shorter perhaps. Right now I am using Gnome Terminal 2 &amp; bash.   Any suggestions?
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Neither less or less -X clear screen on exit. At the same time, vim does....  Env iTerm2, protocol mosh, server Centos + tmux + zsh  iTerm2: report term as xterm-256color  tmux: set -g terminal-overrides 'xterm*:smcup@:rmcup@', no change to alternate-screen  $TERM is final set to screen-256color  I also tried     tput smcup | od -c and     tput rmcup | od -c  suggested . It outputs correct answer.
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The login screen appears in a much older style:    Output of cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager:  /usr/bin/xdm   How can I change it back to normal?
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I love creating hotkeys to open programs and menus, but sometimes I can't figure out what the command for something is. For instance, it took some Googling to find out that the system monitor is opened with gnome-system-monitor  Is there anyway to figure out the terminal command for any program or menu (such as keyboard shortcuts or display settings) in Ubuntu?
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If I open up a terminal (xfce4-terminal 0.6.3, but I doubt it matters) and I look at what terminal attributes are set (BASH is running in the terminal),  $ stty -a speed 38400 baud; rows 24; columns 80; line = 0; intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = M-^?; eol2 = M-^?; swtch = M-^?; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; discard = ^O; min = 1; time = 0; -parenb -parodd -cmspar cs8 hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts -ignbrk brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc ixany imaxbel iutf8 opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke -extproc   then I have a whole bunch of terminal attributes. Fine enough. If I then take a look at what terminal I'm using:  $ tty /dev/pts/0   then, on a new tab of my terminal (which new tab happens to be /dev/pts/1) I look at the terminal attributes of my first terminal, it seems to have slightly different terminal attributes:  $ stty -a -F /dev/pts/0 speed 38400 baud; rows 24; columns 80; line = 0; intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = M-^?; eol2 = M-^?; swtch = M-^?; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = &lt;undef&gt;; discard = ^O; min = 1; time = 0; -parenb -parodd -cmspar cs8 hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts -ignbrk brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr -icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc ixany imaxbel iutf8 opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig -icanon iexten -echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke -extproc   Notably, the original terminal here appears to not be in canonical mode, it has no literal next special character...  So why does this happen? I'd like to be able to look at things like this to see, e.g., if modern ed uses canonical mode, but if there's a Heisenberg problem of looking at it from another terminal, I don't know how I'd do it.  So, my two main questions:   Does the terminal just appear to have different attributes when I look at it from another terminal? (e.g. is my first terminal still in canonical mode, but stty -a -F returns incorrect information?) If the terminal does really change attributes when I switch to the other terminal, how does it know? Is the 1st terminal somehow informed when I'm not directly looking at it?   P.S.: I tried this on the Linux Console also, just to make sure it wasn't a pseudo-terminal thing. Same results.
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Just did a live usb of Linux Mint 11 (DVD edition) and couldn't find major differences bar unity in 11.04. Are there any major differences?
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I use the command line a lot and I would like a widget (possibly integrating itself into the desktop) to provide access to a terminal.  Like this:
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Is there a way to disable scrolling through command history for the Xfce terminal? I don't wish to rely on palm rejection, I'd just like it disabled when I'm using the terminal. Specifically I'm talking about not cycling through previous commands at the prompt when scrolling with mouse/touchpad.
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I am trying to use the Alt+Right Click to select edge loops in Linux Mint but this shortcut doesn't work it is already used for Linux to reduce a window. I have checked the keyboard shortcut but it doesn't appear.
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I would like to know, if there is possible to use keyboard shortcut to focus on first idle (non working) terminal window in unity (13.10)? Something like Ctr+Alt+T, but before opening the new instance of terminal, searching for any idle instance?