[PLUG] Gnome-terminal in Ubuntu 12.04

[Denis Heidtmann]

I am ashamed, but I knuckled under and am running Unity.  Somehow I managed
to get plain Gnome-terminal on the Launcher some time ago.  When I tried to
get the same for a friend on her new install of 12.04, I could not find it
on Dash.  While trying to figure out what I had done to get it on my
machine, I detached it from the Launcher, and lost it!  Drat!, or words to
that effect.

So the search began. I did eventually find Byobu Terminal, attached it to
the Launcher, and it seemed OK, but with bells and whistles.  So I launched
the man page to try to understand the bells and whistles.  OK.  Closed the
man page and the instance of Byobu. Now Byobu launches but quits
immediately.

Don't you love the improvements we keep getting?

I am happy with plain Gnome-terminal.  Dash does not know about it.  Found
another terminal (XTerm), launched gnome-terminal, locked it to the
launcher, unlocked the broken Byobu terminal, and now I am back to where I
want to be.

Anybody here foolish enough to run Unity and have advice on how to more
efficiently deal with Dash and the Launcher?

-Denis