Silly question, but when I launch gnome-terminal, I don’t see any way to open a new tab, “about” and “preferences” don’t work, etc. It’s a step away from being a plain xterm. Have I overlooked something obvious? Using KDE and Cinnamon desktops. On my RH6 installation, gnome-terminal is tabbed and works normally. Did things change radically? I’m a KDE person, not in the loop on all things Gnome. Do I need to install additional gnome-related packages?
So I have to be able to open the preferences to change “open in new window” to “open in new tab” but I can’t open the preference dialog for some reason. Regardless, the internet says to use “mate-terminal” instead, as Gnome no longer allows users to manually rename tabs. You’ve got to wonder about who is calling the shots over there.
Ayy, mate-terminal crashes too (“missing schema”). Had to install entire Mate pattern to get that to work. Installed Gnome pattern but that was no help for accessing gnome-terminal’s preference dialog box. +599 packages, ouch.
Log out entirely, log in with gnome-shell from scratch, then gnome-terminal worked. Then I could go back to cinnamon, and gnome things worked after that. It’s true, it’s craap. Just use mate-terminal instead of gnome-terminal. Well I just wanted to try gnome-terminal to contrast it with KDE konsole. My god, gnome-shell is … maybe it’s for a tablet, not sure. Not for me.
On Fri 15 Sep 2017 05:26:02 AM CDT, xorbe wrote:
Silly question, but when I launch gnome-terminal, I don’t see any way to
open a new tab, “about” and “preferences” don’t work, etc. It’s a step
away from being a plain xterm. Have I overlooked something obvious?
Using KDE and Cinnamon desktops. On my RH6 installation, gnome-terminal
is tabbed and works normally. Did things change radically? I’m a KDE
person, not in the loop on all things Gnome. Do I need to install
additional gnome-related packages?
Hi
Nope, ctrl+shift+T works for me…
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Where is that documented in the gnome-terminal program? I tried installing gnome-terminal on a second machine, and did not have issues like the first one. :\
On Fri 15 Sep 2017 10:46:01 PM CDT, xorbe wrote:
malcolmlewis;2838249 Wrote:
> ctrl+shift+T works for me…
Where is that documented in the gnome-terminal program? I tried
installing gnome-terminal on a second machine, and did not have issues
like the first one. :\
Hi
No idea… I usually look at the online docs or man pages…
https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/shell-keyboard-shortcuts.html.en
https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-terminal/stable/gs-tabs.html.en
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I might as well use gnu screen if the gui app has zero indications of how to open a tab, lol. Who looks at a manpage for a gui app? This is /r/jokes material right there.