Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 74484
no keyboard shortcut for 'open new terminal window'
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:03 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826 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. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 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.
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.