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Showing posts with label console. Show all posts

How to fit the terminal/console results on the screen?

<Your command> | less


Example

ps ax | less

Arcam Sapientia

Using this tip we can prevent the output results of our command scroll down to the end. Or, we can fit the results to the screen and pressing Enter see rest of the results

How to change the keyboard layout for the console (Ctrl+Alt+F1)?

1-Go to the console
Press Control+Alt+F1, for example
2-Install the console-common package
sudo apt-get install console-common
3-Follow the instructions and choose your new keyboard layout
4-Test the new layout

 Arcam Sapientia

 To reconfigure your keybout layout run
sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-common
This tip is useful to us keyboard for foreign users.Users that have pipeline (|) missing can emulate it using this tip too.