I just want to open a website link using the terminal in ubuntu. I am using the following code:-  firefox   the problem is that once this command is executed, the terminal does not get free until and unless I close mozilla or press ctrl+c. I want to execute few more codes after the browser gets opened. What should I do???
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Sometimes you run a program from the terminal, say, lxpanel&dagger;. The terminal won't drop you back to the prompt, it'll hang. You can press Ctrl+C to get back to the prompt, but that will kill lxpanel. However, pressing Alt+F2 (which pops up a window to take a command) and running lxpanel works gracefully.  Why is this? What is different between running a command from the terminal and from the 'run' window that appears when you press Alt+F2?  &dagger; lxpanel here was just used as an example. I have experienced this with multiple programs
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My current directory is buried deep in multiple subfolder layers from my home directory.  If I want to open this directory in a gui-based file browser, I have to double click folder after folder to reach it.  This is very time consuming.  On the other hand, with very few key strokes and several times hitting the tab button, it is very easily reachable via a terminal.  I want to know if there is a way to open the current directory in a terminal onto a a file browser.  What is the command to do this?  For reference, I have an ubuntu system, but I'd like to know what the commands are across the various distributions of linux.
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Hi I have ubuntu server 10.04 installed and I also installed the following:  su aptitude install xorg xfce4 aptitude install &lt;name of GUI browser, I use firefox&gt; aptitude install gedit aptitude install gnome-terminal   Now when I restart the system it goes to the GUI login, what I am really after is a system that loads the CLI by default and then I can use startx to load the GUI when really necessary. I am trying to learn CLI but I would like to retain access to the GUI for now. And, how can I switch between CLI and GUI anytime?
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I have a list of URLs in a text file, for example,  http://url1 http://url2 http://url3   I wonder how to open them each in one tab in Firefox (or SeaMonkey), without the hassle of creating a new tab, copying into address bar and hitting return for  each URL?  My OS is Ubuntu 10.10. Both command line and GUI solutions are welcome.
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I have a simple one line command which works perfectly in terminal, but does not work in the "Startup Applications" app thing.  The line of code is : xmodmap /home/seph/Code/Ubuntu\ Scripts/Xmodmap  It's not that much of a hassle to copy it from "Startup Applications" and paste it into terminal, but I don't really get why it isn't working.  I followed someone else's instructions to do it in the first place, so maybe I did something wrong?  In any case, wouldn't it be the obvious and logical assumption that it just types whatever you put in it into Terminal?
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I just ran this a few seconds ago. I managed to do Ctrl - C as soon as I realized what I started doing.  So far the only directory it's started going through is /bin.  I'm afraid to do anything else. So far I realized I can't use su as my normal user anymore.  Luckily I still have another root terminal open. What do I do?
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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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So I have an alias for "sublime text"  and very often I need to open a file or a folder right from the terminal, easy for a file:  subl myfile.html   and for a folder  subl /Users/me   But how can I use 'pwd' command to open current directory in sublime? Is there a way to pipe it in?
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What is a terminal? How do I open a terminal window? How do I use the terminal?
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I'm not sure what how or why this happens but sometimes when I open programs through terminal the terminal continues to attach itself to the program. I can understand this for things like "sudo nautilus" but for regular programs this is extremely annoying.   I cannot detach terminal from program because if I ctrl+c then it closes the program and if I quit the terminal then the program closes as well.  Few questions:   Why does this happen? How do I manually activate/deactivate this function? How do I detach the terminal from the program?   If I am asking too much then I understand. In that case I don't even know how to google the answer so if you can point me to any resources that talks about this or give me the name of the function that is happening that that would be great.   Thanks.
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I was curious and wanted to see if I could start Firefox using Terminal. So I typed   firefox   in Terminal, and it displayed the message below  (process:5199): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed   And Firefox started running. But I am a little worried because the message above looks like an error message to me. Can anyone tell me what it means?
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On Ubuntu, When trying to open Firefox it is saying that it is already running but not responding. I am on a system where I dont have access to view the root.  I have had this issue before and fixed it but I dont remember how. I know before I had to delete a file but I dont remember what or where.
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I am running openbox and so do not have access to standard Ubuntu control panel, but must set everything from the terminal. When I download an image in chrome and click open, it launches xdg-open which then launches an arbitrary program (it resorts to Internet Explorer on wine if I uninstall those programs).  How do I control which program is loaded for an image of type .jpg (and others)?
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I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, and till day before yesterday, the shortcut was working perfectly. But when today I pressed it, it didn't open terminal. The terminal app still works. I am on GNOME3 3.4.2, and I updated recently using apt-get install gnome-shell  The Keyboard shortcuts window shows no problem -    Pls. help, what should I do now?
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I was trying to make python version 3 as a default version of Ubuntu,  I used nano ~/.bashrc and added the first line of this answer.    Then It just messed up my terminal.  Now when I am clicking on my Terminal or trying to access by ctrl+alt+t, the terminal does open/run. I can only talk to ubuntu using my terminal how could I fix this?  Please advise!  Pls, note that the terminal icon is present, but the terminal does not open when clicked on. How do I get the terminal to open and work?  Update: I deleted that line from .bashrc. However, I still have a problem opening my terminal. I also see this sign on my ubuntu as well.     saying: a problem occurred when checking for the updates ubuntu 18.04
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In terminal emulation applications, pressing CTRL + Left / Right arrows jumps from one word to the previous or next one. Is it possible to have the same functionality in a Linux console, whether it is in text or in framebuffer modes?  In my configuration, the CTRL + arrow keys are transformed into escaped character sequences and not interpreted.
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Is it possible for me to make Ctrl+C perform a copy command if there is highlighted text in the terminal? Otherwise, it should retain its normal behavior.  (If there is a terminal that can do this other than gnome-terminal, that's probably fine too.)