Moron (me) Punts Terminal ...

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gregup

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10.2.8/tcsh. Just started using Terminal recently. Ran Top last night. Forgot how to exit it ... tried a couple key combinations. No luck. Quit Terminal. Message: These processes currently running, kill? Sure.

Now, when I open Terminal, Top starts running. I hit CONTROL + S. Top pauses, but no cursor. I hit Q. No cursor. Running a separate command to kill Top doesn't appear to resolve either. Manual for Top no help.

How I miss the days (yesterday) when my shell opened with a happy cursor. How do I get them back?

Any assistance appreciated.

Thanks -- Greg.
 
Bobw -- From Top, which now runs automatically, I can't seem to get a cursor back to input anything else.

brianleahy -- Each new instance starts up with Top.

To clarify, here's what my session now runs automatically on launch:

/usr/bin/top; exit

It's like there's a Terminal "Log In Items" file somewhere and somehow I put that in it.

So ... as further evidence I probably shouldn't be anywhere near Terminal ... I'm writing that last line and it occurs to me I should dump the Preferences for Terminal (AKA Troubleshooting 101) and -- of course -- that works. I'm back to normal now.

Thanks again for the assistance. Sorry for taking up the Forum space.

Best -- Greg.
 
Pressing q while in the terminal running top exits top.

In general, when running jobs in terminal, you can use control-c to kill the jobs being run in the foreground.
 
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