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How to Change Terminal Font Size in macOS

Rahul — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 03:02:31 +0000

A terminal is the command line interface (CLI) for the macOS. That takes only commands as input and is sent to the operating system. The default font size is good enough, but some people require to increase in font size for better visibility. You can increase or decrease the terminal font size via terminal preferences.

Launch a terminal on your system. Then open in the menubar: Terminal >> Preferences
Open terminal preferences

A new dialog box will open with the terminal profile editor. Here you can change the terminal theme, background color or image, cursor, font, and font size. Click change button as shown in below image:
Click change button

You will get a list of the sizes. Select a font size of your choice, if the required size is not showing in the dropdown, just type it.
Select font size to set

All done. Close all dialog boxes including the terminal. Then launch a new terminal and you will get the new font size.

This quick tutorial shows you – how to increase or decrease the font size for the macOS terminal.

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How to close terminal without killing running processes on Linux

Rahul — Sat, 10 Nov 2018 16:58:51 +0000

For example, you are running time-consuming processes and you don’t want that job killed due to terminal closed. To handle this situation, you can simply remove a job from an active job table. So that the job will not be killed when the terminal is closed.

Instructions

Follow the below instruction to detach running jobs from the terminal.

1. Press CTRL + Z to suspend current running process.

zip -q -r home.zip *

^Z
[1]+  Stopped                 zip -q -r home.zip *

2. Then run the stopped process in the background by running bg command. It will put the last stopped process to background.
```
bg

[1]+ zip -q -r home.zip * &
```
3. Finally, remove the above job from the table of active job. Use [disown -h jobspec] where [jobspec] is the job number of background running job. Like %1 for the first running job.
```
disown -h %1
```
Note: Here 1 is the job ID of background running job. You can also use the “jobs -l” command to find job id.

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How to Enable Telnet on Windows 7/8

Rahul — Sat, 16 May 2015 01:34:47 +0000

Telnet is an application protocol used for two-way communication using terminal connection. This article will help you to enable telnet client and server on Windows 7 & 8 operating system.

1. Firstly open command prompt and type telnet command to make sure that it’s already installed or not on your system.
2. Open control panel on your system by type “control” on run window. You can also open control panel using windows navigation.
3. Now click on programs link in control panel as per below screen shot.
4. Now click on “Turn Windows feature on or off” under Programs and Features options.
5. Now you will get Windows Features dialog box. Select Telnet Client check box as showing in below image. You can also select Telnet Server to enable telnet server on your Windows system.

Now click OK. Installation processes will take few time and you will get result like below on successful installation.
6. As the telnet client has been installed on Windows system. Lets again type “telnet” in command prompt and hit enter, You will get result like following.

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