Bug 74484

Summary: no keyboard shortcut for 'open new terminal window'
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta Reporter: Andrew Huntwork <ash>
Component: metacityAssignee: Havoc Pennington <hp>
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Description Andrew Huntwork 2002-09-25 06:24:55 UTC 
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Description of problem:
The keyboard shortcuts configuration program in the gnome2 preferences menu has
a bunch of things that you can make keyboard shortcuts for, like "activate
window menu" and "toggle fullscreen mode".  However, there is no entry for "open
a new terminal".  I do this a whole lot, and it was available in previous gnome
versions, so I hope it returns.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open keyboard shortcuts preference program
2. scroll through the list of actions
3. note the absence of "open a new terminal"
	

Actual Results:  there is no item in the action list called "open a new terminal"

Expected Results:  the action list contains an item called "open a new
terminal", a shortcut can be set for this action, and entering the shortcut
corresponding to this action should open a new terminal window.

Additional info:

I bet I open >30 terminal windows in a given day.  typically, i'll change to a
particular desktop using a keyboard shortcut, then open a couple terminals, and
start viewing files side by side, or view a file in one and type a whole bunch
of commands in the other.  so the only mouse use in that process is opening the
terminals.

i bet other people would also like this feature.  actually I bet there's another
way to do this that I haven't discovered and everyone else is using it very
happily already.  maybe someone can invalidate this and clue me in.
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-09-25 13:32:36 UTC 
Yep, open gconf-editor, 
go to /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands, set command_1 to "gnome-terminal", 
go to /apps/metacity/global_keybindings, set run_command_1 to "<Alt><Ctrl>t" or
whatever you are after.