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GNOME Terminal is the standard terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment.

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GNOME Terminal is the standard terminal emulator for the desktop environment. GNOME Terminal emulates the terminal emulator and provides some of the same features. It also supports profiles.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Terminal

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How to rename terminal tab title in gnome-terminal?

Used to be able to right click on the tab and change the title. Not sure how to do this anymore. Just upgraded to Fedora 21. EDIT: I have switched from gnome-terminal to ROXterm
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How to export a gnome-terminal profile?

Is it possible to export a gnome-terminal profile to another computer? I create a terminal profile using edit>preferences and save it as "def". I would like to save the configuration in a file and use it another computer. I try to grep "def" within…
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Open Gnome Terminal window and execute 2 commands

I have a script which runs in the background (without terminal windows or TTY) and occasionally does something. I now want it to do another thing when it does something and it is to open a Gnome Terminal window and execute 2 commands. Actually, I…
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Run true multiple process instances of gnome-terminal

If you have gnome-terminal running, and want a new instance of the program, you might think that running gnome-terminal & from a shell would do the trick. Astonishingly, this new instance behaves like some insipid Windows or Mac program; it only…
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Save and restore tabs in gnome terminal

We have GNOME Terminal 3.14.3. This version does not support --save-config option. Is there any other way to do so in this version? How else can one save and restore tabs? What version of gnome terminal will allow me to do so? The error is: Option…
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Set starting directory for gnome-terminal profile

In gnome-terminal if I choose File->"Open Terminal" or "Open Tab" I get a new window in the same directory as the current window. I would like to create a gnome-terminal profile that starts in a particular directory. I have experimented with the…
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vte.sh does not keep my gnome-terminal directory in new tab

I used to keep my working directory when opening a new tab in gnome-terminal and want to restore this functionality. My research pointed me to sourcing /etc/profile.d/vte.sh in my ~/.zshrc (I use Z shell), however that does not change the problem,…
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How to run a script when a title is set to a terminal tab?

During my day-to-day work, I keep many terminal tabs. So to identify those, I set titles Terminal Tab > Set Title e.g. IRC, API Codebase, API Logs, Server1, etc What I want to do is do something in the tab based on the title of the tab. e.g. When…
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How to open a process from terminal without becoming child process?

If I execute the following command in LXTerminal: gnome-terminal & gnome-terminal gets opened. But as soon as I close the LXTerminal, gnome-terminal will be closed as well because it's a child process. Is there any way to open the second process…
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Command for launch a new terminal, or a new tab if exists

I have a keyboard shortcut that is mapped to running the command gnome-terminal (I'm on Fedora 27). I wish that this key, would open a new terminal if no terminal is open, but open a new tab on the existing terminal window if a terminal window is…
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How can I configure GNOME Terminal to launch new tabs with the same SSH host and directory as the current tab?

I source vte.sh in my .bashrc. One thing this does is it causes Bash to echo "\033]7;file://$HOSTNAME$PWD\007" as part of PROMPT_COMMAND. This uses the escape sequence "OSC 7" to send a value like file://mylocalbox/home/kerrick to the terminal,…
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Set a custom icon for gnome-terminal

Is it possible to set a custom icon for gnome-terminal, maybe dependent on the profile. I often have many terminal windows open and it gets a bit tricky to distinguish between them.
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Reset terminal profile preferences (Without using terminal)

I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS I opened up terminal and went Preferences > Profiles > Command, and checked both Run command as a login shell and Run a custom command instead of my shell and I changed the drop-down menu to Exit the terminal. My…
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Why have these gconftool-2 commands stopped working in Ubuntu 16.04?

In ubuntu 14.04 running these gconftool-2 commands at a command prompt would change the profile settings for gnome terminal. gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/background_color --type string "#393939" gconftool-2 --set…
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How to remove dotted underline from hyperlinks in Gnome Terminal

I want to use the new hyperlinks feature available in ls. However, I find it visually distracting and pointless to have a dotted underline under every single directory and file. For example, given a directory and two files I see the following…
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