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How to prevent new Terminal windows opening in same directory?

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http://askubuntu.com – Hitting Ctrl-Shift-N when an existing terminal window has focus opens a new terminal window with the same working directory as the old terminal window. How can I prevent this? (HowTos)

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Submitted by missing on 11/28/2012 – Made popular on 11/28/2012

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System: I have XUbuntu 12.04 64bit and run Terminal 0.4.8 (Xfce Terminal Emulator).

Problem: My Terminal always stops to accept any input after I close a program window started from the Terminal.

Details: For example, I start leafpad, (or geany, tkdiff etc) from the terminal. I close the window after finishing my job by either clicking on the close button or using ctrl-w.

When I need to open a terminal I press CTRL+ALT+T to save time. Most of the time absolutely nothing happens, I try to press same combination again, and still nothing happens. After like 5-8 tries terminal window finally appears.

Is the following I will explain possible with a key combination?

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As you can see, the terminal is the focus window (Front window) and Nautilus is in the background (Back Window). How can I grab a folder or file from Nautilus without loosing focus on the terminal (Without making the terminal go to the background and Nautilus to the front) and drop it in the terminal?.

I've written a simple bash script for deleting some temporary files that match a certain pattern:

#!/bin/bash cd ~/some_project/some_dir rm */*.xml

I've saved it as 'script', chmodded it to +x via terminal. Now when I double click this file, I get the option to Run it in terminal or display its output.

I just installed 12.10 (clean install and updates). USB keyboard and mouse work fine EXCEPT the keyboard does not work in a terminal window (USB mouse is working in terminal). keyboard is Logitech MK320 and associated mouse. I'm typing in a mozilla window on the keyboard at this very moment and when I switch to the terminal window, nothing can be typed.

Any ideas?

EDIT: Answered my own question; terminator allows per-pixel resizing if you disable window hinting in the preferences.I have an annoyance with resizing terminal emulators. I use stacking WMs (xfwm4 on one setup, compiz standalone on another) but I usually like to tile my windows manually. I've enabled edge snapping in both of these WMs.

I'm using a tiling window manager and I switched from gnome-terminal with multiple tabs to multiple urxvt instances managed by the window manager.

My current workflow is:

CTRL+SHIFT+T to launch a new terminal window. That starts a new zsh terminal. Type tmux to start tmux.

How can I have tmux load by default with a new terminal window?

I recently created by first EC2 server using an Ubuntu 11.10 AMI (previously had been using 10.4). The default terminal behavior for this server seems a bit odd.

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