I managed to install Fedora 11 on a Dell optiplex 260. On the first boot - I can't launch the terminal in the graphical environment. On clicking system tools->terminal it brings up a window with title Starting terminal. It then disappears in a few seconds. Everything else works. I can get to a terminal using Ctrl-alt-f2. But cannot start the terminal within graphical environment.
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.
I’ve found this terminal while testing Crunchbang, Terminator is CrunchBang’s default terminal. Its based on Gnome terminal, its best feature is it’s ability to show multiple terminals on one screen, but it also uses tabs aswell.
It is inspired by programs such as gnome-multi-term, quadkonsole, etc. in that the main focus is arranging terminals in grids (tabs is the most common default method).
I run my terminal program with a solid black (non-transparent) background. I'm not into distracting wallpapers or background photos.
There are times when I need to monitor programs in windows behind the one I'm working in, but I can't see them.
I like the terminal, it's handy to have open but this happens eveytime:
open terminal
type something in it
switch to another program
dammit terminal is closed
:-/ This happens even if I just type something in the command line and leave it there, or if I open a program through the command line or if I'm just looking through my folders...
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Sorry this is the true chain of events:
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I am looking for a better (GUI) terminal for Ubuntu that supports:
tabs, preferably colored ones
change notification - output is changed on an inactive terminal
define a list of servers to connect to
The default terminal app does supports tabs but not the things above.
I mostly feel ashamed having to ask this question, but I can't remember the answer or even think of the proper terms to do a Google search.When I launch a program from within a gui file manager (thunar in my case), the program launches and I can then close thunar and the program will continue to run.But if I launch a program from a terminal window, as soon as I shut down the terminal window,
Normally when you use the terminal to launch a program, if you want to close the terminal, you will have to close the running program as well. For example, the screenshot below is what happened when I tried to close the terminal after I used it to launch pluma:
There is a trick to close the terminal without killing the running program.
I used to be able to copy&paste (or type if I load respective keyboard layout)
any kind of characters (eg. é ö ñ ß و 好) in my console/terminal.
Now I bought a new computer and it does not work any more, only English/ASCII characters (but in other programs, e.g. firefox, it still works).
Distribution: Ubuntu.
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