Terminal

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The Terminal activity gives a simple command prompt similar to that provided by the Developer Console. It is included in recent builds of the laptop (e.g. build 650).

Change font size

Here is how to increase the print size in the terminal for those who need it (a good quick-start for technically-minded low-vision users or developers):

1. Launch the Terminal activity.
2. Type nano ~/.sugar/default/terminalrc
3. Find the line saying Font = Monospace 8, change it to Monospace 16 (or whatever you want).
4. Press Control-X and answer Yes to save.
5. Close the terminal activity (the X in the top right-hand corner)
6. Re-open the terminal activity, the terminal should now be in a larger print.

Changing font size in the console

There is a console that runs outside of the X Window System (Sugar) environment that can be accessed by typing Ctrl-Alt-. (Note that many Sugar binding are not available in the console, so commands such as sugar-control-panel will not work there.) To increase the font size in the console, type:

setfont sun12x22

(To return to the X Window System environment, type Ctrl-Alt-.)

Limitations

It is not currently possible to cut and paste from the terminal to other activities. A ticket has been raised in the development site to add this feature.

Pasting Text from a Web page to the command line in the Terminal Activity: You can use the the clipboard function (i.e., to cut and paste) to drop text into a terminal if you attach a 3 button USB mouse to your USB port. After you have copied text from the web page(usually Ctl C), switch to the Terminal activity, put your cursor on the command line and click your middle button. Doing that should cause the text to be copied successfully.

Isn't it possible to configure the X Server so that the "double cord" of pressing the left and the right mouse button at the same time, emulate the middle mouse button? But even simpler would be to use the right mouse button for pasting since it is not currently used in the terminal. -- Dov Grobgeld - 2008-01-23