I work with terminals all the time, and most of the windows opened are teminals. I would like to get them somehow organized, for example in tabs. But the problem is I open them from nautilus (Open in Remote Terminal https://github.com/umpirsky/nautilus-scripts/blob/master/Open%20in%20Remote%20Terminal) so it opens always a new window.

Is there any tool that can keep then on one terminal window in separate tabs? I saw terminator, but that works separated from native ubuntu terminal app.

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ctrl+shift+t might help... – Vineet Menon Oct 12 '11 at 9:45
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If you have terminal window "A" open and terminal window "B" open. You can select window "A", then open another tab in that window with Ctrl + Shift + T. After that you can click and drag Tab "A" to "B" leaving a window with the last created tab alone and a new window with your two old windows "A" and "B" as tabs.

After this you can right click on the tabs to give them labels. I can do this with the gnome-terminal, a.k.a. the standard terminal.

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Then you can change the default switch to next tab to a more practical key.

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That's perfect, thanks a bunch! – umpirsky Oct 12 '11 at 11:13
Only strange thing is strange shortcuts in terminal. Change tab is Ctrl+Page Down. Very strange choice, Ctrl+Tab would be more appropriate. – umpirsky Oct 12 '11 at 11:17
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Edit -> keyboard shortcuts -> Tabs. Swap it to what fits you. – filescraps Oct 12 '11 at 11:33
Thanks, great tip. For some reason it does not accept Ctrl+Tab :( – umpirsky Oct 12 '11 at 13:12
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There is a plugin for Compiz that enables you to group and tab different windows of any kind. It's not entirely stable though. :)

The plugin is called Group and Tab and it's available in the compiz-plugins-extra package.

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