Usage
- 3.1. Opening and Closing Terminals
- 3.2. Managing Profiles
- 3.3. Modifying a Terminal Window
- 3.4. Working with the Contents of Terminal Windows
- 3.5. Viewing the Keyboard Shortcut Settings
- 3.6. Text Size
- 3.7. To Change the Terminal Title
- 3.8. To Change the Character Encoding
- 3.9. To Recover Your Terminal
3.1. Opening and Closing Terminals
- To open a new terminal window:
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Choose
.The new terminal inherits the application settings and default shell from the parent terminal.
- To close a terminal window:
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Choose
.This action closes the terminal and any subprocesses that you opened from the terminal. If you close the last terminal window, the GNOME Terminal application exits.
- To add a new tabbed terminal to a window:
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Choose
or just if there is no submenu. - To display a tabbed terminal:
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Click on the tab of the tabbed terminal that you want to display, or select a tab title from the
menu.Alternatively, choose
or to navigate between tabs. - To close a tabbed terminal:
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- Display the tabbed terminal that you want to close.
- Choose .
3.2. Managing Profiles
- To add a new profile:
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- Choose New Profile dialog. to display the
- Type the new profile name in the Profile name text box.
- Use the Base on drop-down list to select the profile on which you want to base the new profile.
- Click Editing Profile dialog. to display the
- Click GNOME Terminal adds the profile to the submenu. .
- To change the profile of a tabbed terminal:
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- Click on the tab of the tabbed terminal for which you want to change the profile.
- Choose .
- To edit a profile:
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You edit profiles in the Editing Profile dialog. You can access the Editing Profile dialog in the following ways:
- Choose .
- Right-click in the terminal window, then choose from the popup menu.
- Choose Odsek 4 ― Preferences. , select the profile you want to edit, then click . For information on the options you can set for profiles, see
- To delete a profile:
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- Choose .
- Select the name of the profile that you want to delete in the Profiles list, then click . The Delete Profile dialog is displayed.
- Click to confirm the deletion.
- Click Edit Profiles dialog. to close the
3.3. Modifying a Terminal Window
- To hide the menubar:
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Choose
. - To show a hidden menubar:
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Right-click on the terminal window, then choose
from the popup menu. - To display the GNOME Terminal window in full-screen mode:
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Choose
. Full-screen mode displays the text in a window that fills the full screen. The window does not contain a window frame or titlebar. To exit from this mode, choose again. - To change the appearance of the terminal window:
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See Odsek 4 ― Preferences for information about the options that you can choose in the Editing Profile dialog to change the appearance of the terminal window. For example, you can change the background color, or the location of the scrollbar.
3.4. Working with the Contents of Terminal Windows
- To scroll through previous commands and output:
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Perform one of the following actions:
- Use the scrollbar, which is usually displayed on the right of the terminal window.
- Press the Shift+Page Up, Shift+Page Down, Shift+Home, or Shift+End keys.
The number of lines that you can scroll back to in the terminal window is determined by the Scrollback setting in the Scrolling tabbed section of the Editing Profile dialog. You can also scroll up or down one line at a time by pressing Control+Shift+Up or Control+Shift+Down.
- To select and copy text:
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You can select text in any of the following ways:
- To select a character at a time, click on the first character that you want to select and drag the mouse to the last character that you want to select.
- To select a word at a time, double-click on the first word that you want to select and drag the mouse to the last word that you want to select. Symbols are selected individually.
- To select a line at a time, triple-click on the first line that you want to select and drag the mouse to the last line that you want to select.
These actions select all text between the first and last items. For all text selections, GNOME Terminal copies the selected text into the clipboard when you release the mouse button. To explicitly copy the selected text, choose .
- To paste text into a terminal:
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If you previously copied text to the clipboard, you can paste the text into a terminal by performing one of the following actions:
- To paste text that you copied by selection only, middle-click at the command prompt. If you do not have a middle mouse button, refer to the X Server documentation for information about how to emulate the middle mouse button.
- To paste text that you explicitly copied, choose .
- To drag a file name into a terminal window:
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You can drag a file name to a terminal from another application such as a file manager. The terminal displays the path and the full name of the file.
- To access a link:
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To access a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that is displayed in a terminal, perform the following steps:
- Move the mouse over the URL until the URL is underlined.
- Right-click on the URL to open a popup menu.
- Choose to start a link application and display the file located at the URL.
3.5. Viewing the Keyboard Shortcut Settings
To view the keyboard shortcut settings that are defined for GNOME Terminal, choose . The Keyboard Shortcuts dialog contains the following items:
- Disable all menu access keys (such as Alt+f to open File menu)
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Deselect this option to disable the access keys that are defined to enable you to use the keyboard instead of the mouse to select a menu item. Each access key is identified by an underlined letter on a menu or dialog option. In some cases, you must press the Alt key in combination with the access key to perform the action.
- Disable menu shortcut key (F10 by default)
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Deselect this option to disable the shortcut key that is defined to enable you to access the GNOME Terminal menus. The default shortcut key to access the menus is F10.
- Shortcut Keys
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The Shortcut Keys section of the dialog lists the shortcut keys that are defined for each menu item.
Not all keys can be used as shortcut keys, such as Tab.
3.6. Text Size
You can use the following methods to resize the text in the GNOME Terminal window:
- To increase the size of the text, choose .
- To decrease the size of the text, choose .
- To view the text at actual size, choose .
3.7. To Change the Terminal Title
To change the title of the currently displayed terminal, perform the following steps:
- Choose .
- Type the new title in the Title text box. GNOME Terminal applies the change immediately.
- Click Set Title dialog. to close the
3.8. To Change the Character Encoding
To change the character encoding, choose
, then select the appropriate encoding.3.8.1. To Change the List of Character Encodings
To change the list of character encodings displayed in the
menu, perform the following steps:- Choose .
- To add an encoding to the Available encodings list box, then click the right arrow button. menu, select the encoding in the
- To remove an encoding from the Encodings shown in menu list box, then click the left arrow button. menu, select the encoding in the
- Click Add or Remove Terminal Encodings dialog. to close the