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  1. What is the exact difference between a 'terminal', a 'shell', a 'tty ...

    A console is generally a terminal in the physical sense that is by some definition the primary terminal directly connected to a machine. The console appears to the operating system as a (kernel …

  2. How to scroll in a terminal using keyboard? - Unix & Linux Stack …

    This depends on your terminal emulator, not the shell you are using. I personally use GNU Screen. From the description: Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between …

  3. What is `/dev/console` used for? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

    Nov 30, 2018 · What is it used for? Does /dev/console play the same role for Linux kernel as /dev/tty for a process? (/dev/tty is the controlling terminal of the process session of the process, and can be a …

  4. Can I change the font of the text-mode console? - Unix & Linux Stack ...

    Sep 28, 2019 · In Debian, you can also run dpkg-reconfigure -plow console-setup to be prompted for the various console settings and pick them from menus. Edit - I put together a small page how to setup …

  5. Where can I get additional *console* (ie. virtual-terminal) fonts? Or ...

    Jun 8, 2024 · 0 Where can I get/download additional Console / Virtual-Terminal (on F1 through F6) fonts - especially larger ones? I'm here talking about the font that can be set with the setfont command.

  6. Save all the terminal output to a file - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

    Is there some way of saving all the terminal output to a file with a command? I'm not talking about redirection command > file.txt Not the history history > file.txt, I need the full terminal...

  7. How to change cursor shape, color, and blinkrate of Linux Console?

    I know I can change some fundamental settings of the Linux console, things like fonts, for instance, with dpkg-reconfigure console-setup. But I'd like to change things like blinkrate, color, and s...

  8. How can I enable UTF-8 support in the Linux console?

    Aug 16, 2016 · Addressing a different comment: At least on my system (and in the screenshot shown in the question), all of the characters used by pstree are supplied in the 512-glyph font used by default …

  9. How to view the output of a running process in another bash session ...

    In BSD, you can use watch which snoops a given tty, e.g. watch /dev/pts/0 In Linux, it won't be possible if the process wasn't run under multiplexer before such as screen or tmux. See also: Reptyr: Attach a …

  10. Disable screen blanking on text console - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

    Apr 25, 2011 · I'm running linux clusters, mostly on SLES10. The servers are mostly blades, accessed via remote console. There is a real console in the server room, but switched off. I would like to …