Terminal Activity

Starting Terminal

. This is a pre-installed program found in the Activities taskbar at the bottom of your Home View. You may need to scroll through the Activities taskbar by using the right arrow icon at the bottom of your screen () to find the icon.

The Terminal activity grants access to the XO's Linux command line:

BEWARE: If you become user "root" by executing "su -l" you have full control to destroy all software!

Another way to bring up the Linux command prompt is by pressing the Ctrl+Alt+Neighborhood keys at the same time. The Neighborhood key is represented by a circle with 8 small dots .

Note: You can find Keyboard Shortcuts and the keyboard illustrated here.

Common Commands

• sugar-control-panel - Change nickname, colors, time zone and other options
• ifconfig - View Wireless Network connections

The core Linux used on the XO is Fedora 7. More Fedora commands can be found in the official documentation.

Limitations / Known Problems

It is not possible to copy and paste from the Terminal. So, if you are following some instructions from a web page in the Browse activity, and want to copy them into the Terminal activity, a pen and paper is required unfortunately. This has been logged on the dev.laptop.org bug tracking system.