Bug 1021221

Summary:	Zero documentation on opening a terminal
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora Documentation	Reporter:	Alan Feuerbacher <alanf00>
Component:	system-administrator's-guide	Assignee:	Pete Travis <me>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Docs QA <docs-qa>
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Version:	devel	CC:	cristian.ciupitu, kwade, me, swadeley
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Description Alan Feuerbacher 2013-10-20 12:41:49 UTC

There appears to be no way to find how to open a terminal emulator in Fedora 19 (I just install a fresh copy of it) documentation.

As a Unix user of 30 years, I WANT a terminal to do much of my work. First, Fedora should install this by default, i.e., something like the old right-click-desktop-gets-you-a-terminal. Rather, I had to search online for several hours to find that (1) I had to install "nautilus-open-terminal", then "gnome-tweak-tool", and restart several times. This software should also be installed by default. I consider this a HUGE hole in Fedora's usability for a long-time Unix user. Second, I consider having to find this information online in various general linux forums, rather than on Fedora's webpage, unacceptable.

By the way, I use RHEL5 (yeah, it's long outdated, but that's the commercial world for you) at work all day long, and that's why I was interested in Fedora for home use over other Linux distributions.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 19 downloaded 17-Oct-2013 and with full software update after installation.


How reproducible:
Right-click on desktop and see no options for "Open Terminal"


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Comment 1 Cristian Ciupitu 2014-01-07 02:17:16 UTC

(In reply to Alan Feuerbacher from comment #0)
> Second, I consider having to find this information online in various
> general linux forums, rather than on Fedora's webpage, unacceptable.

By the way, have you though of search or asking this on our Q&A website
https://ask.fedoraproject.org ?

Comment 2 Pete Travis 2014-12-22 14:46:45 UTC

Opening applications in general is covered in http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/21/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-Opening_GUI_Applications.html now.  The instructions about opening any application from the menus should also work for opening a terminal window.