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>Shells</A
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> 
	 <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Terminal</TT
> starts the default shell (command line
	interpreter) for the user. Advanced UNIX shells can
	significantly extend the capabilities of the usual command
	line prompt. For example, 
	<TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>bash</TT
> shell (which is the default
	shell for most Linux distributions) provides command 
	completion (try entering beginning of a command or file name
	and press <B
CLASS="KEYCAP"
>Tab</B
> key), history buffer (you can
	recall previously entered commands by pressing
	<B
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>Up</B
> arrow key), and much more.  For complete
	documentation, see the manual pages for appropriate shells. 
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>	  <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Terminal</TT
> provides scrollbar so that you can scroll
	  back and see previous commands and output; this is
	  especially convenient  when a command output
	  does not fit in one screen. By default, the scrollbar is
	  placed on the right side of the terminal window. You can
	  change its location or remove the scrollbar altogether using
	  the <A
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	  dialog</A
>.
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> 
	  You can also use keyboard for scrolling:
	  <SPAN
CLASS="KEYSYM"
>Shift-PgUp</SPAN
> scrolls up,
	  <SPAN
CLASS="KEYSYM"
>Shift-PgDown</SPAN
> &#8212; down. 
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>The term is designed to emulate the
      <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>xterm</TT
> program provided by the X
      Consortium.  The <TT
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>xterm</TT
> program in
      turn is an almost-complete emulation of the DEC VT102
      terminal.</P
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>The GNOME terminal program supports the same extensions to
      the VT102 that the <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>xterm</TT
> program
      provides, through special escape sequences. The xterm program is
      an evolving program. Recent changes to xterm have been been
      incorporated into <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Terminal</TT
>. This includes emulation of the newer
      DEC VT220 escape sequences.
      </P
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> In simpler terms, this means that GNOME terminal
	understands all the commands (escape sequences) used by
	VT102/VT220 terminals  for things like
	positioning of the cursor on screen. Therefore, you can
	run in <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Terminal</TT
> any application that is designed to work
	inside VT102/VT220/xterm terminals and all the controls (such as
	arrows, <B
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>PageUp/PageDown</B
> keys, <B
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>Tab
	</B
> key, etc) will work as expected.  
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