@Gilles heh, I have a floppy disk because "it'll be interesting to see how tar, split and cat used to be used"
@slm it depends on the locale settings. originally GNU/Linux (and UNIX) used ASCII, but nowadays a lot of things use UTF-8, although you can still configure ASCII locales.
Plan 9 was the first operating system to use Unicode. in fact, Unicode was designed for Plan 9. (UTF-8 is also usually used in web pages.)
@terdon or the guy who asked about GUI mounting "under the hood", and wouldn't accept reasonable answers. IIRC we wanted to close based on "question will never be resolved as long as OP is OP"
@Gilles I'm pretty sure it's 600 rep on at least one site. isn't it?
@strugee - do you remember a Q about the desktop where I think I answered it and the OP added a bounty and then someone else wrote up an alternative A and got the bounty? It was ~ 2 months ago, maybe?
UPDATE
Please correct me if I'm wrong: For working on my computer, with a GNU/Linux Distribution named Debian, I know two
ways to enter a command, start an application, open a file, etc.:
a Command Line Interface where I enter text
a Graphical User Interface [a.k.a GUI]: an interface which pr...
Thanks, that's what I was looking for. I had the picture of the diagram in his Q and was thinking it was a dup potentially for some of the what's a desktop questions we were getting.
chirp
@Gilles - you got any ideas on the bell duration?
I thought xset for sure but that's not it, I'm thinking it's controlled by the DE
don't we have a what's a desktop question already? I think it's called something like "what's the difference between a window manager and a desktop environment"
the prob. is they all address little bits of it, and the OPs generally don't understand the issue well enough to ask the Q in a good way. It's one of the areas where we should try and get a better Q&A on it for the site.
my system bell isn't even working here. I don't know why and I don't care
the last time I used it, the system bell was asynchronous: control is returned immediately to the app, but if there's a new bell request while the current bell is being rung, the request is dropped
that looks like what lightandlight is seeing, so I'd say it's normal behavior
There's nothing built in, exactly, but there are two ways to get at the scrollback text.
You can configure the XTerm.vt100.on4Clicks and XTerm.vt100.on5Clicks resources (or from on1Clicks onwards, for that matter) to choose to copy the whole scrollback to the X11 PRIMARY selection. For example, ...
I didn't know xterm supports up to quintuple click
I have this question on askubuntu: askubuntu.com/questions/405759/… and I was wondering if it's OK for me to also post the question on the unix and linux stack exchange site. I'm in realy deep s**t if I can't access my files anymore, so any sort of attention will be great
@Nkciy84 Yes please do not cross post it. It goes on one site or the other, not both. If we find the dup, we'll end up just closing the one here anyway.
When I try to launch vim or gvim from the terminal (or a program tries to do it such as git rebase --interactive). It doesn't open until the terminal closes, it just sits there thinking the program has launched.
The program doesn't even open if I append &, except I can use the terminal as usual....
@terdon I've seen this behavior before. Look at the editor env. variables for git, or perhaps the editor definition in git's configs. (I think it's accessible using git --config or something). Also the env. variable PAGER or something.
looks like the OP figured it out.
That's similar to the issues I've seen where the tool is put into an interactive mode or passed switches but no args for the switch, so it's sitting there waiting.
much like a cat with nothing after it.
If he'd done a `ps auxf` you'd see the process derived from the shell sleeping and know it was `zsh` that was asleep. Similar to the cat example.
err dunno, I tried to remove the "corruption" tag just to be re-added since he's looking for non-filesystem specific methods... but why the heck a corruption tag?
hi all. trying to create a simple alias in my bash_profile. keep getting an error. i put this line in my profile alias htdoc=“cd /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/“. i refresh it with source ~/.bash_profile. in response i get -bash: alias: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/“: not found is my syntax wrong?
@slm gnome-terminal has its own unique failure... when I start one, it starts a reasonable size, then starts shrinking. It keeps resizing itself until its 3 lines tall. I suspect it doesn't like kwin.
@slm though, wow, it actually renders the file right now. It didn't used to.
Yeah. I have no idea what gnome-terminal is doing there. I suspect it had to do a substitution with a different font to get the character, and well the sizing didn't work out.
I'm curious too what Firefox is doing in my screenshot, where it put it over the T instead of the Λ
its U+030A combining ring above, so it certainly sounds like it should go above.
Its funny too, because if you put it above an A instead of uppercase lamda, it works in Firefox.
yet another case of mixing up session startup (.profile) and session startup (.${SHELL}rc) and then making the mess worse by trying to make it work in a few common cases
I voted to close as not reproducible, because if he's instructing vim to start interactive shells all over the place, he should have expected that it would sometimes… start an interactive shell
@Gilles Though I don't see why ddrescue is the only program that "reads raw data off damaged drives and then pulls out all the undamaged files that it can."
but then again: `aptitude remove openjdk-7-jre-headless [sudo] password for semko: The following packages will be REMOVED: openjdk-7-jre-headless 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 57.2 MB will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: default-jre-headless : Depends: openjdk-7-jre-headless (>= 7~u3-2.1.1) but it is not going to be installed. openjdk-7-jre : Depends: openjdk-7-jre-headless (= 7u51-2.4.4-1) but it is not going to be installed.
UPDATE
Please correct me if I'm wrong: For working on my computer, with a GNU/Linux Distribution named Debian, I know two
ways to enter a command, start an application, open a file, etc.:
a Command Line Interface where I enter text
a Graphical User Interface [a.k.a GUI]: an interface which pr...
Try:
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