Terminal

The terminal application on Nuvolos is a xterm terminal emulator served directly in your browser. The terminal emulation runs the bash shell in a persistent tmux session, thus supporting long-running applications.

It also comes with persistent conda and node.js package managers (via nvm). This means, any packages that you install with these managers will persist between restarts.

Important shortcuts and tricks

Here are some tips how to use the terminal effectively:

• Ctrl + A: Go to beginning of line

• Ctrl + E: Go to end of line

• Ctrl + Left/Right arrow: Move word-by-word instead of character-by-character

• Ctrl + U: Delete from cursor position to beginning of line

• Ctrl + K: Delete from cursor position to end of line

• cd - : Go back to last used directory

Clipboard support

You can use Ctrl + Shift + V or Shift + Insert to paste into the terminal from your host machine's clipboard.

To copy text out from the terminal, simply highlight the text on the screen with the mouse.

Exit the main session

When your Nuvolos app starts, a tmux session called main is created automatically. If you issue the exit command in this session, it'll kill it. This means the next time you try to open the app's window, you'll see a message

no sessions

Currently there is no way to restart the tmux session from such a state - if you encounter this, please restart the entire app.

Configuring tmux

You can add your own configuration at ~/.tmux.conf . The settings will be applied on the next restart of the Nuvolos application, or you can apply them to the current session via tmux source-file <file>.

Tmux cheat sheet

If you need further guidance with tmux, check out this cheat sheet.

Configuring bashrc

Nuvolos treats .bashrc slightly different than a regular Linux system. Read the documentation on how to set up a persistent .bashrc for your terminal application.