How to reset terminal in Linux - Linux Tutorials - Learn Linux Configuration

Using the command line terminal is the most powerful way to administer a Linux system. Sometimes, though, a terminal can get hung up and become unresponsive. The terminal can also bug out if you try to read a binary file, filling your screen with strange characters.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-reset-terminal-in-linux

Hi there! And Thanks for the explanations! I was trying to “beautify” my terminal watching an idiotic 2 minutes video on youtube and the lot of commentaries with “thank you a lot”. I’m forcing myself to stay in linux against all ugly and unfriendly approach I’ve meet till know. But I’m getting tired of bullshit sincerely and I’m a half-step on the way back to the fukin microsoft! In 23 days of “trying” to “use” linux, I instead lose all my time to read tones of blogs and watching hundreds of stupid videos, making tones of “copy/paste” commands without actually understanding why and being forced to reinstall the system twice, because such a small and insignificant thing of "how the hell get back to the prompt after a stupid copy/paste let me in the middle of a process waiting for the next command. That’s why I’m here know to find a way to delete if possible that stupid half-installation of a supposed “theme for terminal”. I’m enough of linux users who forgot they were some time like me, ignorants willing to learn and finding no help but start a fukin school or to read from scratch the “Linux Manual”. Which of course I will never do such an idiotic thing when I always can reinstall the fukin Windows and end all my problems! Now, after 23 days in linux…well, in linux because my PC boot in linux now but in reality I was never truly “in linux”, now I say, I understand why so few even try this shit and why they call me stupid for doing it! And they are right indeed, because loosing 23 days for finding nothing “useful” or “nice” or “attractive” in linux is really stupid! Nevertheless I thank you again for your insight regarding the terminal reset! Greetings!