There’s an xterm control sequence for this: \e]11;?\a (\e and \a are the ESC and BEL characters, respectively.) Xterm-compatible terminals should reply with the same sequence, with the question mark replaced by an X11 color name, e.g. rgb:0000/0000/0000 for black.
since gnome-terminal uses the same control commands as xterm this page might be helpful. Xterm Title for bash and other shells TL;DR: add following to your .bashrc PROMPT_COMMAND=’echo -ne “\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007″‘
You can use a CLI clipboard tool like xsel or pbpaste and the cat utility to grab contents from STDIN. The steps on Linux with xsel are as follows: Copy text from your screen session into GNU screen’s copy buffer. Run this command within screen: cat | xsel -b If xsel didn’t report any error, … Read more
Execute the command reset and your terminal should be restored (reference). This issue happens generally when dumping binary data to the terminal STDOUT which when the escape codes received are processed can do anything from change the color of the text, disable echo, even change character set. The easy way to avoid this is to … Read more
Use the following command to do a clear screen instead of merely adding new lines … printf “\033c” yes that’s a ‘printf’ on the bash prompt. You will probably want to define an alias though… alias cls=”printf “\033c”” Explanation \033 == \x1B == 27 == ESC So this becomes <ESC>c which is the VT100 escape … Read more