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User Consoles How-Tos

Version 3.1 by sendels on 2020-01-24 09:05
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Paths of the mounts

Since the path's are not in the fstab anymore, one have to know the paths which are:

FLASH Core-FS:

/asap3/flash/gpfs

FLASH-O Core-FS:

/asap3/fs-flash-o/gpfs

pnfs:

/pnfs/desy.de/flash1


How to take screenshots

Shortcuts of the Screenshots:

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Easy to take screenshots of the full Desktop, only the active window or just an area. In area mode your cursor turns into a crosshair ant u have to mark the area you want to take a acreen of.

Above picture i used alt+print, for the following i used ahift+print, so you see its just an area:

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How to change colors in terminal

In the Terminal click on "Edit" → "Preferences". A new window opens and there you click on the tab "Profiles". After this click on "Edit" to change the used profile:

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In the tab "Colors" you can change the colors from system themed to your own favorite:

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In my case on my computer i use green text and black background


How to run the Shell as a login shell

In the editing Profile Windows (see picture above) click on the Tab "Command" and check the "Run command as a login shell":

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To see if you are running with or without login you can use the command "echo $0":

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The "-" implicates that it is a login shell. At example you need the login shell to use all your own variables. If you just change user etc. without it, it may happen that - at example - you don't have permissions to geht dconf work because of some variables still got owned by the previous user.