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| - | ====== Usage ====== | ||
| - | ===== To open and close terminals ===== | ||
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| - | ? To open a new terminal window | ||
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| - | ! The new terminal inherits the working directory from its parent terminal. | ||
| - | ? To close a terminal window | ||
| - | ! Choose {gui> | ||
| - | ! This action closes the terminal and terminates any subprocesses that you opened from the terminal. If you close the last terminal window, the Terminal application exits. | ||
| - | ? To add a new tabbed terminal to a window | ||
| - | ! Choose {gui> | ||
| - | ! The new terminal inherits the working directory from the previously active terminal. | ||
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| - | ===== To modify a terminal window ===== | ||
| - | ? To hide the menubar | ||
| - | ! Choose {gui> | ||
| - | ? To show a hidden menubar | ||
| - | ! Right-click the terminal window and choose {gui> | ||
| - | ? To show or hide the toolbars | ||
| - | ! Choose {gui> | ||
| - | ? To customize the toolbars | ||
| - | ! Be sure to show the toolbars first; then choose {gui> | ||
| - | ? To show or hide the window decorations | ||
| - | ! Choose {gui> | ||
| - | ? To put a terminal window into fullscreen | ||
| - | ! Choose {gui> | ||
| - | ? To change the appearance of the terminal window | ||
| - | ! See the section called [[preferences|Preferences]] for information about the options that you choose in the Terminal Preferences dialog to change the appearance and behaviour of the terminal windows. For example, you can change the background color or the location of the scrollbar. | ||
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| - | ===== To work with the contents of terminal windows ===== | ||
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| - | ==== To scroll through previous commands and output ==== | ||
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| - | Perform one of the following actions | ||
| - | * Use the scrollbar, which is usually displayed on the right side of each terminal window. | ||
| - | * Press the {key> | ||
| - | * Use the middle wheel button on your mouse if applicable. | ||
| - | Terminal mimics the FreeBSD console when Scroll Lock is pressed. When scroll lock is active, ordinary input and output from the shell is suspended and you can scroll through the history with {key> | ||
| - | The number of lines that you can scroll back in the terminal window is determined by the {gui> | ||
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| - | ==== To select and copy text ==== | ||
| - | You can select text in any of the following ways: | ||
| - | * To select a character at a time, click on the first character that you want to select and drag the mouse to the last character that you want to select. | ||
| - | * To select a word at a time, double-click on the first word that you want to select and drag the mouse to the last word that you want to select. | ||
| - | * To select a line at a time, triple-click on the first line that you want to select and drag the mouse to the last line that you want to select. | ||
| - | These actions select all text between the first and last items. For all text selections, Terminal copies the selected text into the clipboard when you release the mouse button. To explicitly copy the selected text, choose {gui> | ||
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| - | ==== To paste text into a terminal ==== | ||
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| - | If you previously copied text to the clipboard, you can paste the text into a terminal by performing one of the following actions: | ||