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I dont know exactly what happened. When I open my terminal window, it completely cracked. I dont anything editing this window. How to i reinstall gnome-terminal ?

I have tried the below post's solutions, How to reinstall Terminal?

But, it didn't solve my problem.

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It would be great, if give any solutions.

Thanks.

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    The question you linked to seems to be about reinstalling gnome-terminal when it's been removed: to reinstall it when it's currently installed but screwed up, you probably need to add the flag --reinstall to the command i.e. sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-terminal Oct 11, 2015 at 14:29
  • I have tried with your command. But, that problem has not solved. Oct 11, 2015 at 14:33
  • In that case, the problem is likely not with any of the files in the gnome-terminal package - perhaps it is something in your local (user) configuration? Do you see the same behaviour if logged in to a different account / guest account? Oct 11, 2015 at 14:35
  • @steeldriver I have tried different users too .... Still, blank window only opened. I have tried to execute exit command in this window. It works. But, content has not displayed. Oct 12, 2015 at 4:35

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Read the next paragraph to its end before doing anything!

Switch to a TTY by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1. It also works for F2 to F6. If something is running on TTY1 (used F1), use the next one. Log in and enter sudo apt-get purge gnome-terminal. To get back to the graphical session, press Ctrl + Alt + F7.

You might want to remove the profile files before reinstalling gnome-terminal (by typing in sudo apt-get install gnome-terminal). To do so, delete ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal, if it exist on your system. I have no idea where it is on Ubuntu 15.04, so maybe google this one.

Edit: I figured out the path on Ubuntu 15.04: /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.Terminal.gschema.xml.

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  • thanks for your reply. I have execute above solutions. Problem has not solved :-( . My OS- ubuntu14.04 Oct 12, 2015 at 4:41
  • I've never had something like this and have no idea how to solve it. However, you can try to install a new terminal. Mate Terminal is pretty much the same thing. sudo apt-get install mate-terminal
    – UTF-8
    Oct 12, 2015 at 18:56
  • Did you delete the files mentioned in my answer?
    – UTF-8
    Oct 12, 2015 at 18:57
  • sorry.... small mistake.. It works well... Thank you very much. Oct 13, 2015 at 4:34
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Most likely you ran into this problem after upgrading python2.7 to python3.5, anyway the solution is rather easy: Just open xterm and type the following:

sudo apt-get -f install gnome-terminal

or

sudo apt-get remove gnome-terminal && sudo apt-get install gnome-terminal

if it didn't work either ways though, run sudo apt-get remove python3 first and repeat the steps.

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  • It worked like a charm. Thank you so much. :)
    – rkalra
    Jun 11, 2020 at 8:16
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open xterm or a tty terminal, and run the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gnome-terminal && sudo apt-get install gnome-terminal
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Uninstalling and reinstalling the application (terminal or xterm) doesn't work because it doesn't create the ~/.bashrc file. The solution is to create/edit this file with appropriate logic. :-) You can find some modified version of these files in extenstion.gnome.org

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