I currently use xchat as my default IRC program, but I don't really like GUIs, I prefer TUIs, is there an IRC program out there which has a TUI rather than a GUI? I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18.
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I am looking for a IRC client for the terminal that has colors, user list and just generally looks awesome ;) Any recommendations? There are loads of IRC clients in the repositories and I don't want to download them all to find the best one.
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I wanted to try out using graphical tools over ssh. Just to learn a new thing :)  so my understanding is this, I connect like this: ssh -port -x user@server  But I'm running ubuntu server so it has no gui and thus no gui tools. My understanding is I've to install gedit on server. But also xserver?  Can someone clear up this concepts to me?
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I used Gnome for a long time, but preferred vanilla X input method (xim) over the default GTK behaviour. I just set GTK_IM_MODULE and QT_IM_MODULE environment variables to xim, and didn't have any problem with multiple-layout config, Compose key, custom ~/.XCompose and misc:typo typography extensions.  Recent Gnome 3.6 completely screwed keyboard input by shipping a half-baked and buggy ibus . I just couldn't get the keyboard working as well as before (even with ibus disabled), and had to abandon Gnome completely.  Now I use a simple window manager, and configure my keyboard with setxkbmap. While the keyboard works well again, I couldn't get the Compose key working everywhere. Compose works in plain X11 apps (xterm), but it doesn't work in neither GTK2, nor GTK3, nor Qt apps.  I use current Archlinux versions:  xorg-xinput 1.6.0 xorg-server 1.13.1 xf86-input-keyboard 1.6.2 gtk2 2.24.14 gtk3 3.6.4 qt 4.8.4   and enable Compose key like this:  setxkbmap ... -option 'compose:menu'   and export GTK_IM_MODULE, QT_IM_MODULE variables:  $ echo $GTK_IM_MODULE $QT_IM_MODULE  xim xim   Compose key is properly recognized by X11:  $ xev | grep -A2 --line-buffered '^KeyRelease' | sed -n '/keycode /s/^.*keycode \([0-9]*\).* (.*, \(.*\)).*$/\1 \2/p' 135 Multi_key   It works properly in xterm, sequences from my ~/.XCompose included. It doesn't work in either GTK or Qt apps. Let say, if I enter Compose ', then apps echo ' immediately, without waiting for the third key in the sequence.  Now I suppose something has changed in either Xorg (because Compose doesn't work in Qt apps either), or in GTK and Qt. *_IM_MODULE variables are not enough now. What else is required to make modern GTK and Qt recognise xim and its Compose sequences?  P.S. There is a similar (and unanswered) question about . Unlike the asker, I don't have ibus installed.
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Hai all I just want to know is there any Difference Between  and . I love to use Ubuntu... But I hate the Unity desktop... So want an Ubuntu system with GNOME 3. So if I install Ubuntu GNOME is that same as that of a usual Ubuntu with the GNOME desktop installed?  I just want to know, does this mean if I install Ubuntu GNOME 14.04.2 then everything other than the desktop is same as in Ubuntu 14.04.2?
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I have an Ubuntu server running on EC2 (which I didn't install myself, just picked up an AMI). So far I'm using putty to work with it, but I am wondering how to work on it with GUI tools (I'm not familiar with Linux UI tools, but I want to learn). Silly me, I'm missing the convenience of Windows Explorer.  I currently have only Windows at home. How do I set up GUI tools to work with a remote server? Should I even do this, or should I stick to the command line? Do the answers change if I have a local linux machine to play with?
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Does anybody know any good alternative for Remmina (doesn't have to be free)? RDP would be the most important protocol for me.  Remmina is extremely buggy lately. Segfaults every now and then, clipboard share sometimes works, sometimes it does not and if I open a RDP session too fast, the whole application just freezes.  EDIT: Because of an unrelated reason, I reinstalled fresh ubuntu 12.10, but  my remmina problems are still there. I noticed that remmina supports clipboard-exchange for pictures, gut rdesktop didn't. That was also a reason for a crash. I also tested 2x, but I couldn't even find a shortkey for switching between local and remote session.
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I cannot chat with anyone.  I'm able to see all chatrooms but unable to chat. I tried clearing my browser's cache and history but still facing the same problem.  I've tried in multiple browsers, and all I got message like 'you must logged in to talk'     And I am getting the same message in the various browsers I've tried:   Firefox 26.0 Safari 6.0.2 (8536.26.17) Google Chrome Version 32.0.1700.107)
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Remote desktop is... useable, but I'd like to get a proper remote terminal window open on the Windows XP machine, like I'm able to with Linux. A quick Google points at , but it looks like it's only for Vista/Server.
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Some people (me) would prefer the straight GNOME experience as opposed to the Unity style desktop offered in Ubuntu 17.10.  How can I get the standard GNOME desktop and interface?
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This is on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) 64-bit desktop.  I want to make my X server listen to remote connections from clients in other machines on the local network. I know about ssh -X and that is not what I want. I vaguely remember changing something like TCPListen from no to yes, but I don't remember where this change should be applied.  I'm interested in either a GUI method or a CLI one.  PS editing /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc to remove the -nolisten tcp option and rebooting does not work.
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How do I download all chat messages or those from a particular room (over all time)?  A script may be able to do it, but is there a more convenient way? Is there something at  all I see are the QA sites.
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I am looking to run Ubuntu/Xubuntu in a complete non-GUI mode. Like, when the system starts it needs to log in into console. That is all, no loading of any display manager, x server, GUI-based app support, nothing in the background either for GUI.
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I recall that X11 provided a number of "fun" programs accessible via unix. For instance, if you use the command xeyes, an interface will pop up of cartoon-like eyes which follow your cursor everywhere.   This still works on my most update version of X11.   But I remember so many more of these fun little commands. For instance, there is:  (A) xsnow which causes snow to fall on your desktop, with the santa option  (B) xsol which would begin a solitaire GUI you could interact with   (C) xmille was something similar, and allow you to play the game Mille Borne  (D) xroach caused cockroaches to crawl all over your screen, with the squish option allow you to click/squish these buggers  (E) xphoon would show the moon as it appears today  (F) xpenguins has penguins appear  (G) oneko had something to do with cats and dogs  Question 1: Does anyone else still use these? The only command which still works for me is xeyes. Which updates do I need to use the others?   Question 2: Have I forgotten any of these types of X11 commands?
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I'm using irssi hosted on a remote computer for IRC, and it'd be super helpful not to have to hold Control or right-click every single link (so I can avoid multiple clicks or multiple hands).  At this point I'm willing to download gnome-terminal's source and manually patch it and rebuild the package.
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Now, that Ubuntu 17.10 is out, and Unity 7 is replaced with Gnome 3, is there a way to install and use Unity7?   I know Unity is still in the repositories, so it should be possible, right?
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My wife is sitting at her home desktop, alpha, which is running a recent version of Ubuntu.  I am on a bus, using ConnectBot on my G1 phone, and can SSH into alpha from wherever I am.  For complicated reasons, I cannot use IM, email, or the telephone in order to contact her.  (E.g. I don't want to wake the baby, my IM client is broken, my email server is down.)  My only option is to ssh into alpha remotely and try to somehow make something appear on the screen.  She's using KDE; how can I make something pop up to get her attention and let her know I'm trying to communicate with her?  I thought it was possible to remotely trigger something (like xmessage) to appear on her screen even though my SSH session doesn't have an X display.  EDIT: To clarify, my phone is not running any flavor of X, so X-over-ssh is not possible.  Would the following work?  $ export DISPLAY=:0 $ xmessage "test"
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How can I use the instant messenger program Kik - most commonly installed on smartphones and other mobile devices - on a laptop or desktop running Win7Pro, without a phone being involved and without needing any kind of Google account?  The two ways of using Kik from my laptop that I have so far found are both inadequate, or at least I do not how to tweak them to make them meet the requirements.  The first is to install on my laptop the Bluestacks emulator of Google's Android operating system, and then to run Kik on it. Unfortunately to run Kik on Bluestacks requires (or at least I have not found a way to avoid) having a Google Play account.  The second is to run Bluestacks on Manymo, the online emulator of Google's Android OS. Unfortunately, using Kik on Manymo similarly requires a Google Play account.  I realise Kik was made for use on a mobile OS, but it is supposed to be cross-platform where mobile OSes are concerned, and therefore not to be tied into Google's mobile OS - or, as far as I know, into any other software supplied by Google or any procedure prescribed by that company, such as giving it personal information - so I am optimistic that someone will be able to advise on what I am asking for here.  I notice that Microsoft have made a , so there might be a way to get Kik to work on this without dealing with Google. I couldn't find anything online about this, though.