I just installed 11.10 and found that once I minimize the terminal window, I can't bring it back. All other Windows are getting minimized to the Unity launcher and I can relaunch them from there. If I go to the launcher and click on terminal a new terminal session is created and the old one is lost completely. This is the first time I am facing such a problem and all my previous installations of 11. 10 didn't throw up any such behaviors. Any suggestions?
3 Answers
Reset the Unity:
Press Alt+F2 and run the following command:
unity --reset
answered May 8, 2012 at 9:25
see this answer too:
This is a relatively benign & graceful solution.
Why is my terminal invisible after minimizing it and how can I find it?
quoting:
Use the Super+W keyboard shortcut to show a graphical overview of all windows, including the terminal(s); just click on the one you want to bring it up.
(
Superkey =Winkey)
I had a similar problem which occurs when Terminal is unlocked from launcher
- with minimized Terminal sessions or
- by minimizing any Terminal window later
The open windows are frequently not associated with the Terminal launcher even though it was used to start them.
Another clumsy and inelegant method that I have used, reloads X-windows and hence Unity, by typing Alt+Print Screen+K to kill and restart X-windows.
It should be pretty simple. Do a right click on taskbar and click on "Add new items" as shown below
Then select "Windows Button" and click on "Add" as shown below. Your all windows will reappear on taskbar.
unity --reset