Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón, Lisi and Bob: > There are terminal specific ways to reset. If you are using Xterm > then Xterm uses control+middlemousebutton to bring up a terminal menu > and offers "Do Full Reset" as one of the options. Well. I was speaking about KDE's console (that are shown with ps output as pts/N) and also normal console (that are shown with ps output as ttyM).