<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
      type="guide"
      id="prob-reset">

  <info>
    <revision version="0.1" date="2013-03-03" status="draft"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.34" version="0.2" date="2020-01-04" status="candidate"/>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#troubleshooting"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="pref-keyboard-access"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>Sindhu S</name>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
      <years>2013</years>
    </credit>
    <credit type="copyright editor">
      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
      <years>2013</years>
    </credit>

    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>

    <desc>How do I recover my <app>Terminal</app> screen when it becomes stuck
    or has lot of strange symbols on it?</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Reset your <app>Terminal</app> state</title>

  <p>After viewing a non-text file by mistake, or launching some command, it can
  happen the <app>Terminal</app> screen is unresponsive, has strange letters
  printed when you press keys. You can recover your <app>Terminal</app> in
  the following ways:</p>

  <section id="reset">
    <title>Reset</title>

    <p>Reset <app>Terminal</app> screen.</p>

    <steps>
      <item>
        <p>Press the menu button in the top-right corner of the window and
        select <guiseq><gui style="menuitem">Advanced</gui><gui
        style="menuitem">Reset</gui></guiseq>.</p>
      </item>
      <item>
        <p>To obtain the prompt press <key>Enter</key>.</p>
      </item>
    </steps>

  </section>

  <section id="reset-clear">
    <title>Reset and Clear</title>

    <p>In addition to resetting your <app>Terminal</app>,
    <gui style="menuitem">Reset and Clear</gui> clears the visible
    <app>Terminal</app> screen space and the scrollback contents. To
    <gui style="menuitem">Reset and Clear</gui> your <app>Terminal</app>:</p>

    <steps>
      <item>
        <p>Press the menu button in the top-right corner of the window and
        select <guiseq><gui style="menuitem">Advanced</gui><gui
        style="menuitem">Reset and Clear</gui></guiseq>.</p>
      </item>
      <item>
        <p>To obtain the prompt press <key>Enter</key>.</p>
      </item>
    </steps>

    <note style="tip"><p><gui>Reset and Clear</gui> provides similar
    functionality as the terminal command <cmd>reset</cmd>.</p></note>

  </section>
</page>