Bug 494730

Summary: gnome-terminal --tab opens new windows instead of tabs
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Jeff Bastian <jbastian>
Component: gnome-terminalAssignee: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 5.3CC: dmair, tao
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OS: Linux   
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: 495704 (view as bug list) Environment:
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patch to fix --tab behavior none

Description Jeff Bastian 2009-04-07 22:26:31 UTC
Description of problem:
Running 'gnome-terminal --tab' opens a new window instead of a new tab.  According to the --help:

  --tab                                           Open a new tab in the       
                                                  last-opened window with the 
                                                  default profile. More than  
                                                  one of these options can be 
                                                  provided.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-terminal-2.16.0-5.3.el5

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. gnome-terminal --tab &
  
Actual results:
a new gnome-terminal window opens

Expected results:
a new tab opens in the most-recent-opened gnome-terminal window

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Bastian 2009-04-07 22:28:28 UTC
Created attachment 338622 [details]
patch to fix --tab behavior

Here is a patch written by Siddhesh Poyarekar <spoyarek> to correct the --tab behavior.

Comment 2 Jeff Bastian 2009-04-07 22:52:35 UTC
There's an upstream bug on this that's been open for 7 years...
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83203

Comment 4 Jeff Bastian 2009-04-14 18:42:25 UTC
See bug 495704 for the Fedora 10 clone of this bug.

Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2009-11-06 19:26:30 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in
the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like
this request to be reviewed for the next minor release, ask your
support representative to set the next rhel-x.y flag to "?".

Comment 7 David Mair 2010-01-05 18:53:48 UTC
No response from initial reporter after several attempts. Closing.