I occasionally experience the same after accidentally pressing Ctrl+s In my case Ctrl+q gets me back.
Though your problem is sudo/su related instead - perhaps you have running job or some graphical leftovers in your root session blocking terminal release back. Try Ctrl+c or Ctrl+z when it happens again. Tomas On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 12:36 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Jun 2019, wes wrote: > > > > > This will ultimately depend on the specific reason the characters stopped > > > displaying. Try "clear" and/or "reset" and see if it comes back. > > > > Wes, > > > > 'clear' does nothing; didn't try 'reset.' Next time I'll use 'tset'. > > fyi, reset is actuall tset, just it tries to perseve your terminal > type setting and in this situation is the prefered way to invoke > tset. > > > Thanks, > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
