What is the name of the executable for the Ubuntu Terminal program? I want to launch a terminal from within another terminal. For example inside an XTerm I can write: xterm& How do you do that for the Ubuntu default terminal emulator?
2 Answers
The name of the package is gnome-terminal
Here is a page with all of the switches you can use along with it
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/karmic/man1/gnome-terminal.1.html
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1Thanks - don't know why I can't accept this answer as correct immediately. Having to wait 8 minutes is rediculous.– resignedMay 14, 2015 at 19:20
Just this command will do:
gnome-terminal
Normally if you want a command to open from the terminal and separate (so it returns to the prompt without having to close the opened program), you have to use something like this:
gnome-terminal & disown
However the parent terminal seems to detect that the same command is being used so you don't need to do that and gnome-terminal
will suffice. This also seems to happen when running xfce4-terminal
from Xfce's terminal, konsole
from KDE's as well (doesn't seem to work when running xterm
from xterm
- Running konsole
from Gnome/Unity & Xfce's terminal works as well, but for Xfce's terminal in gnome terminal you need xfce4-terminal & disown
).
For more visit gnome-terminal
's manual page:
gnome-terminal [-e, --command=STRING] [-x, --execute ] [--window-with-profile=PROFILENAME] [--tab-with-profile=PRO‐
FILENAME] [--window-with-profile-internal-id=PROFILEID] [--tab-with-profile-internal-id=PROFILEID] [--role=ROLE]
[--show-menubar] [--hide-menubar] [--geometry=GEOMETRY] [--disable-factory] [-t, --title=TITLE] [--working-direc‐
tory=DIRNAME] [--usage] [-?, --help]
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Good. But also might wanna include redirecting output of stderr May 15, 2015 at 5:25