Some up front info. I am a windows user who has dabbled in trying linux over the years. I've done some distro hopping but I'm hitting a long streak of using Linux for around 3 weeks now, although I've had a lot of minor hicccups and teething issues.
One thing that is bothering me, and is something I also experienced on windows, when using MobaXterm, is this weird behavior during remote SSH sessions to my private server.
I don't know if this is a very specific issue, or abnormal but I swear the problem either went away on Mint Cinnamon, or I did not notice it nearly as much. However it's kind of bugging me now that I'm using Kubuntu.
I don't know for sure if this is an issue related to the size of the command line strings I am using, or what but it does seem to show up more when working with very long inputs.
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Let's say I want to manipulate a file with ffmpeg, and I create a rather decent sized command line.
-ffmpeg -i <inputfile.ext> -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -codec:a copy -vf scale=-1:540 -b:v 1.5M <outputfile.ext>
ok so now let's say I spelled the file name wrong and it errors on me.. What do you do? Hit up arrow, hit the Home key to put you closest to the error (the start of the command line) and go edit the filename.
The only problem is, it errors again, because it just sent a malformed command line, with characters NOT inserted where they were supposed to be, and possibly replacing other characters entirely. i pretty much have to rewrite the entire command line from scratch to save on frustration of trying to get the edit point correct.
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Why does this happen? This does not seem normal to me. A lot of the time I can prevent it when I need to edit a command typo, by advancing the cursor forward past the edit point, then bringing it back (slowly, precisely) without overshooting my intended edit point. That case pretty much always works... This just doesn't seem like normal behavior to me, but I am really unfamiliar with SSH as a whole, and my only guess would be this is a packet loss issue? (seems odd for a secure connection to not have redundancy), or maybe a packet order or other related issue?
Can anyone provide some thoughts on why this has happened across multiple operating systems, across two different hardware platforms? Is this just the nature of remote connections or what?
Really hoping there is something I can tweak or adjust in a config file somewhere.
One thing that is bothering me, and is something I also experienced on windows, when using MobaXterm, is this weird behavior during remote SSH sessions to my private server.
I don't know if this is a very specific issue, or abnormal but I swear the problem either went away on Mint Cinnamon, or I did not notice it nearly as much. However it's kind of bugging me now that I'm using Kubuntu.
I don't know for sure if this is an issue related to the size of the command line strings I am using, or what but it does seem to show up more when working with very long inputs.
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Let's say I want to manipulate a file with ffmpeg, and I create a rather decent sized command line.
-ffmpeg -i <inputfile.ext> -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -codec:a copy -vf scale=-1:540 -b:v 1.5M <outputfile.ext>
ok so now let's say I spelled the file name wrong and it errors on me.. What do you do? Hit up arrow, hit the Home key to put you closest to the error (the start of the command line) and go edit the filename.
The only problem is, it errors again, because it just sent a malformed command line, with characters NOT inserted where they were supposed to be, and possibly replacing other characters entirely. i pretty much have to rewrite the entire command line from scratch to save on frustration of trying to get the edit point correct.
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Why does this happen? This does not seem normal to me. A lot of the time I can prevent it when I need to edit a command typo, by advancing the cursor forward past the edit point, then bringing it back (slowly, precisely) without overshooting my intended edit point. That case pretty much always works... This just doesn't seem like normal behavior to me, but I am really unfamiliar with SSH as a whole, and my only guess would be this is a packet loss issue? (seems odd for a secure connection to not have redundancy), or maybe a packet order or other related issue?
Can anyone provide some thoughts on why this has happened across multiple operating systems, across two different hardware platforms? Is this just the nature of remote connections or what?
Really hoping there is something I can tweak or adjust in a config file somewhere.
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