The following command from terminal works perfectly:  sh /home/flux/Downloads/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64/ts3client_runscript.sh   How would I go about adding this as a shortcut, so I can open teamspeak from my Unity Launcher panel on the left without using the terminal?
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Will Unity allow making custom launcher icons from .desktop files or via menu editing system? (Right now the launcher doesn't give the option to "keep in launcher" on all programs.  For some programs I use, I have to make custom launchers or .desktop files.  For instance, daily blender builds are generally just folders with an executable.  In basic Gnome or KDE, I can make a new menu entry with the menu editing system. Then, I can also add it to Docky either from the menu or by dragging a .desktop file to it. Unity launcher doesn't support drag and drop, so thats not a bug or anything, but when I open a .desktop file, it has unpredictable results. Most time it will not have "keep in launcher". Sometime it will have a pinnable item without the .desktop's icon, and if I pin the item to the launcher, it will not call upon the program again after closing it. I've also gotten it to just work with a .desktop file for celtx.
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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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Hi I'm looking for a piece of software or some sort of technique that would enable me to do following in one terminal window:   Take as input a list of ssh-enabled machines with login, password and script path information, something like this:  login:pass@192.168.1.1/path/to/script/run.sh login:pass@192.168.1.2/path/to/script/run.sh Open ssh connections to these machines and run the specified scripts remotely. Output from all the scripts should be piped to my local window. When I send a signal like Ctrl-C, I want to kill the remote scripts and then the connection. A massive plus would be if my machine goes down, the remote scripts are killed also.   A plus would be if I could use this in Cygwin terminal since that's what I use, but I'm open to anything that would get this done.
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I was trying to control Ubuntu 14.4.1 Launcher's behavior. I want it to auto-hide every time I have browser window like firefox maxmaized. I found this solution:  #!/bin/bash  ## Change value of "hide" to the command which worked for you to hide the panel hide='gsettings set com.canonical.Unity2d.Launcher hide-mode 1;'  ## Change value of "show" to the command which worked for you to show the panel when it was hidden show='gsettings set com.canonical.Unity2d.Launcher hide-mode 0;'  ## Look for the grep value, add a new browser or application name followed by "\|" eg: 'firefox\|google\|chromium' while [ 1 ]  do z=$(wmctrl -l -p | grep -i 'firefox\|google');     if [ -n "$z" ]; then          eval $hide     else         eval $show     fi;     sleep 2; done;   but is seems too old to work then I found   I tried to combine the two scripts together so here is what I did:  #!/bin/bash  AUTOHIDE=$(dconf read /org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/unityshell/launcher-hide-mode) if [[ $AUTOHIDE -eq 1 ]] then      dconf write /org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/unityshell/launcher-hide-mode 0 else      dconf write /org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/unityshell/launcher-hide-mode 1 fi  ## Look for the grep value, add a new browser or application name followed by "\|" eg: 'firefox\|google\|chromium' while [ 1 ]  do z=$(wmctrl -l -p | grep -i 'firefox\|google');     if [ -n "$z" ]; then          eval $hide     else         eval $show     fi;     sleep 2; done;   But script doesn't work. can anybody refine this script to me and get it to work?
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I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server .  How can i run more than .sh file in the same time  (opening more than terminal)  I can use it on desktop version but i use server version.  Is it possible? if yes how can do?
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Say I need to write a script that will launch a terminal and execute a command and I need that to work on various systems. How can I do that in a safe and portable manner?  Is xterm always installed? I assume that any *nix with a GUI must have some terminal emulator. How can I get to it? Debian systems  x-terminal-emulator but that, apparently,  in Red Hat, let alone non-Linux *nixes.
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I want to place a link/shortcut/launcher in my unity panel (ubuntu 12.10).   I followed  on handytutorial.com to create a custom launcher and drag it to the panel.  I just need to know which command do I have to input. Is this possible?
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It's weird that creating desktop shortcuts is currently so primitive.  I found the following:   That helps.  However, if there's something wrong with the shortcut, it just doesn't do anything.  For instance, I tried to create a shortcut for this command line to create a shortcut.  When I double-click it, it just does nothing.  This is the resulting text of my "Create Desktop Shortcut.desktop" file on the desktop:  [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Terminal=false Icon[en_CA]=gnome-panel-launcher Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ --create-new Name[en_CA]=Create Desktop Shortcut Name=Create Desktop Shortcut Icon=gnome-panel-launcher   As I said, when I double-click this, or right-click it and select Open, nothing happens.  Is there a log file where something about this would be written to?
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I would like to open a terminal, split it to lets say 9 parts (3x3) and execute some bash script. But for each terminal part different script.   Can this be done using perl, python or even bash?  How can I switch between those little terminals without using keyboard shortcuts?  Oh, by the way, I'm using terminator. And if there is some other terminal emulator that enables such a functionality, which is it?
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While looking if someone asked this question before, I landed on .  I'd like to do something similar (shortcut or terminal alias/command) on Linux/Ubuntu to be able to quickly switch the external monitor between landscape and portrait mode instead of having to go to Displays setting it and confirming the configuration.  Jacob Vlijm provided a  which works. If you have another idea I'd love to know about it.  Update: I have updated Jacob's script to work .
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With Ubuntu 16.04, if you create a launcher (desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications) with a custom icon for a terminal application (so with Terminal=true) then when you start it, it will spawn a new standard terminal icon, and your custom icon will pulse and disappear within a few seconds.  In 14.04, it just worked as expected. (it would not start a new standard terminal icon).   Any idea what to do to change this behaviour? I have a few terminal apps that I want to launch from unity and the new behaviour is problematic (I lose trace of which is which since they all end up with the standard terminal icon)...
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I have this run.sh file, and I've create a symbolic link into my desktop.   When I double-click on it the file the following dialog appearsr    And I have to click on "run" each time. How can I create a link that runs by default?
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For example,   Say I want to list the contents of a folder and directly paste them into a chat window for a friend to see.    I realize I could do ls &gt; filename.txt to create a file (filename.txt) with those contents; I'd then have to open or print the file and manually select and copy the text block (which can be annoying/tedious.)  I clearly could also select and copy the output of ls directly from within the terminal window.  It would be much faster/easier to simply pipe standard output to the clipboard.  What terminal command allows me to do this?
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How can I create a keyboard shortcut so that when I press F12 in nautilus (or desktop), I get a terminal in the current directory?
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I'm using terminal-ide  which is basically a terminal for android with all sorts of utilities. One is able to create bash scripts for example. Is there a way to create an icon on the home screen that will launch one of these scripts?
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I was wondering how to make a clickable terminal shortcut for my desktop using the command easytether connect.  I don't want to have to open/close the terminal every time I wish to connect to the Internet through my phone.  I've tried updating my gnome-panel but I can only make a new directory on my desktop.
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I would like to execute the shell command "cmatrix" whenever I open a terminal. How to go about achieving this?