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sisko
Asked: 2020-11-10 20:27:38 +0800 CST

Tilda terminal emulator malfunction

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I had Tilda installed and working just fine. I then installed Zsh in an attempt to see which GIT branch I am currently checked out into. Zsh didn't work out for me so I used sudo apt-get remove --purge zsh -y to remove it.

After uninstalling Zsh, Tilda malfunctioned. It presents a prompt, no text and does not accept any input.

I have uninstalled using sudo apt-get remove --purge tilda -y and re-installed Tilda but it made no difference.

Even after purging it from the system, Ubuntu reuses the same settings after I have re-installed.

The screen shot below shows my Tilda HUD instance. It might be hard to see why I included it but the top left hand corner shows the promt. Other than that, Tilda is suddenly and inexplicably useless.

I need help, please.

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18.04 tilda

1 Answers

  1. The --purge option will remove config files installed system-wide by APT itself. But there are also per-user config files created by Tilda. On my system (20.04.1), I can see:

    $ find ~ -iname \*tilda\*
~/.config/autostart/tilda.desktop
~/.config/tilda
~/.cache/tilda

    In ~/.config/tilda, you should see several files starting with config_, these are different versions of Tilda's preference. You may try a diff between these files and look for something related to zsh.

    Also, after you've quit tilda, you can safely remove ~/.cache/tilda, then restart tilda and hope that it will fix your problem...

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