How To Speed Up Opening Linux Terminal & Running Linux Commands

By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
Friday, October 10, 2008

Most techies and developer prefer using the terminal on Linux. If you are like me a heavy command line interface (cli) user than you will find these simple tips useful.

How to speed up opening Linux terminal
Install roxterm. On Red Hat, Fedora, Cent OS or other yum based systems, it is as simple as:
yum -y install roxterm

How to run Linux commands directly from desktop

  1. Right click on Panel and select Add to Panel.
  2. Select Command Line and click on Add.

Now you will have a mini command line on your desktop panel from which you can directly run commands. It also remembers your old commands and auto-fills them.

BTW: My favorite command is:
pkill firefox
I use this whenever Firefox becomes slow or hangs.
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Angsuman Chakraborty
October 10, 2008: 8:30 pm

@James Watson

> Have you seen anything that incorporates a terminal with a file explorer?

> For example, it would be nice to be able to type in a cd command and have the file explorer change the display.

Use mc (Midnight Commander). It excellently integrates a file explorer in the terminal and has more functionality packed in than you can imagine.

On yum based systems you can use the following to install it:
yum install mc

Angsuman Chakraborty
October 10, 2008: 8:27 pm

@Fahd
In theory, yes. In reality it slows and even hangs. Having said that it does when it is subjected to much greater loads than any other browser. Chromium, Opera craps much much earlier. Between Chromium (open source chrome browser) & Opera, Opera is the best. Chromium sucks in terms of stability.

Fahd Shariff
October 10, 2008: 8:51 am

Firefox never becomes slow or hangs :P


James Watson
October 10, 2008: 8:22 am

Have you seen anything that incorporates a terminal with a file explorer?

For example, it would be nice to be able to type in a cd command and have the file explorer change the display. Now that I think about it it might be more complicated than I initially though. But if was done well, it could be awesome.
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