Tag Archives: terminal

What to do when an SSH session hangs because of a network problem

Posted on March 16, 2021 by SoCRaT

It’s a very basic post, yet still useful! Sometimes when you disconnect from a network or VPN or have any network connectivity problem in general that affects an established SSH connection to any of your servers, the terminal hangs for … Continue reading →

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How to change default terminal emulator in Ubuntu 18.04

Posted on May 5, 2018 by SoCRaT

Ctrl+Alt+t is the keyboard shortcut to open a terminal in Ubuntu. By default, it opens an ‘x-terminal-emulator’ terminal. I wanted to change that to use my favorite terminal emulator, which is ‘terminator’ To do that: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec ‘terminator’ … Continue reading →

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My favorite drop-down terminal for Linux

Posted on March 29, 2018 by SoCRaT

It’s Tilda! My previous best was Guake, but it’s having compatibility issues and not maintained frequently like this one. sudo apt install tilda Very customizable and has a lot of options, including position, colors, scroll bars and transparency. Tested on Ubuntu … Continue reading →

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Get CPU Temperature From Command Line in Ubuntu

Posted on May 12, 2010 by SoCRaT

more /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/temperaturemore /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM1/temperature As I have two processors “THM0” and “THM1” Source

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Unix Terminal shortcuts

Posted on October 3, 2009 by SoCRaT

On Unix-like systems, most of us use shell to do much of daily tasks, and we use terminal to issue commands.These terminals may be from a Unix system such as gnome-terminal, Konsol or througt MS-WINDOWS such as butty or F-Secure.This … Continue reading →

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