MobaXterm - reset terminal screen

Question

I need to Reset my MobaXterm screen after some time working, however 'clear' and 'reset' commands wont work as if I was on a linux server.

Anyone have some tip?

score 25 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 26 '20 at 14:48

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Right click MobaXterm screen > Click Clear Scrollback

Note: Your MobaXterm may be set to paste on Right-Click; in this case use Ctrl+Right-Click.

edited Aug 26 '20 at 14:48

einpoklum

answered Jun 16 '17 at 16:10

Carlos Marques

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This does not work in case you have mapped right click to paste. At this time I have not been able to find any shortcut or menu item to take care of this. – jhash Dec 07 '17 at 21:18
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Does MobaXterm have a keyboard shortcut for this? I check in settings and didn't find one, and would really appreciate one. – Sep 19 '18 at 19:45
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@jhash see https://stackoverflow.com/a/48218903/2604813 on this page (ctrl/shift right click) – Marcus Oct 11 '19 at 18:45
Thank you Carlos and @marcus, both are correct, depending on the config you have! So Marcus answer is a bit more correct, since it covers all configurations you have! ctrl+shift+rightclick is a good one! – Tiago Duarte Dec 18 '19 at 08:36

score 9 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 12 '18 at 03:19

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When 'Paste using right-click' is checked, you still can use Ctrl/Shift + Right Click to pop up the contextual menu.

edited Jan 12 '18 at 03:19

Pang

answered Jan 12 '18 at 02:55

Aric Deng

g910 · Answer 3 · 2018-09-14T13:41:56.973

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To reset your MobaXterm screen, use:

edited Sep 14 '18 at 13:41

answered Sep 14 '18 at 12:39

g910

+1 for the `cls`. `CTRL-L ` does not erase the scrollback, just clears it from the screen (but still scrollable back) – yO_ May 31 '19 at 13:49

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered May 22 '19 at 15:10

Mobaterm seems to like playing around with the putty configuration - so I found that right clicking on the window -> change terminal settings

-> features -> enable everything.

-> window -> disable push erased text into scrollback

the usual clear control commands

function clear() { printf '\033[2J' # clear printf '\033[H' # home }

will now clear the screen and clear the scrollback

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 01 '21 at 16:49

You can now type clear and have the window clear and remove the scrollback.

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