Crazy things you can do in a Terminal

[Nekiruhs]

Lets compile a list of things you would normally do in X, but can do in a terminal.

VLC:

vlc -I ncurses

Pidgin:

finch

GAIM:

gaim-text

[tgm4883]

How about something you wouldn't normally do like

cat /dev/urandom

Made my terminal freak out
****I am not responsible for the above code if it breaks your computer****

[Nekiruhs]

How about something you wouldn't normally do like

cat /dev/urandom

Made my terminal freak out
****I am not responsible for the above code if it breaks your computer****
XD! Totally random!

[croto]

I little tip for when that happens (for example you less a binary file by mistake and your terminal gets all weird characters). To reset the terminal to normal characters, type the following (you'll have to do it blindly...):



cat <enter>
^O <enter>
^D <enter>


where <enter> is just pressing the enter key, ^O is control-O and ^D is control-D . Try it out.

[GStubbs43]

How about something you wouldn't normally do like

cat /dev/urandom

Made my terminal freak out
****I am not responsible for the above code if it breaks your computer****



hahaha. I did that with wobbly windows in Compiz fusion. http://ubuntuforums.org/images/smilies/new_popcornsmiley.gif