Bug 494730
| Summary: | gnome-terminal --tab opens new windows instead of tabs | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Jeff Bastian <jbastian> | ||||
| Component: | gnome-terminal | Assignee: | Behdad Esfahbod <behdad> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA | QA Contact: | desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 5.3 | CC: | dmair, tao | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| : | 495704 (view as bug list) | Environment: | |||||
| Last Closed: | 2010-01-05 18:53:48 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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| Bug Depends On: | |||||||
| Bug Blocks: | 495704 | ||||||
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Created attachment 338622 [details]
patch to fix --tab behavior
Here is a patch written by Siddhesh Poyarekar <spoyarek> to correct the --tab behavior.
There's an upstream bug on this that's been open for 7 years... http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83203 See bug 495704 for the Fedora 10 clone of this bug. 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 "?". No response from initial reporter after several attempts. Closing. |
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: