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How do I remove white border of XTerm window?
Couldn't find any answers to this.
XTerm*internalBorder actually is a padding between the black border and terminal contents;
XTerm*borderWidth is the black border.
Couldn't find a resource for the ...
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how to change error (std-err) color [duplicate]
Because standard error is a separate device in UNIX-like environments, and programs or shell scripts can redirect their errors to it, it would be logical to configure terminals (any displayer) to ...
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How to print logs to serial port without specifying 'console' in Linux?
I am working on an embedded Linux system (5.19.10), and I am using busybox as the main part of file system.
Now I am trying to run a test which should output logs to the serial port (ttyS0). But I did ...
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What are all file metadata available to the linux file system that are always available vs optional?
Context: I know that some programs figure out whether they're being run inside a terminal by running the standard C function isatty(STDOUT_FILENO), or isatty(STDIN_FILENO).
I believe also that they ...
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SGID in File Permissions
the following are two scenarios to let you know how i understand the problem and the SGID:
Scenario 1:
user A is part of the group G.
group G has full privileges to 2 files-its the group owner of ...
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Reflect x-axis (mirror screen) on Linux tty without GUI and without xrandr -x
I want to run old computers without GUI.
If I use the command xrandr -x in a Linux system (with GUI),
the whole screen is reflected (mirrored) around the Y-axis
(along the X-axis).
So text is mirror-...
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How to turn Audio Output into Virtual Microphone?
I have an APp that converts Audio input from microphone to a specific Filter I am trying to implement on the audio for a project.
It is needed to make the app interpret the audio from the app as a ...
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Is there a reverse mapping of key codes or escape sequences to common keyboard keys?
I am using fish for my shell, so I have an easy way the escape sequences or key codes for various key presses using the fish_key_reader builtin.
What I'm looking for is the reverse. Is there a way I ...
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Bash terminal lagging one input behind
After a recent update, I've noticed that working on any terminal for more than a few minutes causes a delay between inputting a keypress and seeing it reflected on the screen.
Specifically, if I were ...
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How to match a pattern instead of a single letter/number using brackets?
I want exclude MSG, PDF and DOC from my path with shell parameter expension using brackets.
When I place MSG between brackets only deletes the M instead of MSG. I looked around on the internet and ...
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Is the difference between physical terminal and Linux virtual terminal the use of serial cable?
In the early days of computing, the setup is usually like this:
and we call the VT-100 "physical terminal".
But in Linux, we call virtual terminals "virtual" (the ones accessed by ...
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Linux terminal with custom buttons to execute scripts or commands
I'm aiming to improve my terminal usage for software development by creating a dashboard. First of all I want splits, vertical/horizontal, this is already possible with Tilix or Terminator (I don't ...
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How to work with CPU and memory intensive application in Linux?
This is the scenario,- it is a Java Application mainly, Heap Dump & Thread Dump is not helping me. Maybe I am not wise analyzing it.
Observation 1) Lots of memory seems to be utilized.
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Remove all lines between two similar patterns if a specific pattern in between is not matched
The title should be: Remove all lines between two similar patterns, including the line of the starting pattern. if another specific pattern in between is not matched. I made it shorter because its ...
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create folders from a text file
ls -R $pwd > text.txt
The above command generates the below txt file:
engagement
groups
solo
text.txt
./engagement:
VAM01427.JPG
_VJR3208.JPG
_VJR3244.JPG
_VJR3281.JPG
./groups:
family
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