[PLUG] Gnome-terminal in Ubuntu 12.04

[Bill Morita]

Denis

You can get an ICON for terminal on you desktop using the following
technique.

   - Open a Nautilus window (that's your GUI file browser)
   - Maneuver to /usr/share/applications.
   - Find there Terminal icon
   - Right-click and select Copy To
   - Select Desktop

You should now have a terminal icon on you desktop that will start
Gnome-terminal.
This technique has worked for years even pre-dating Unity


-- Bill Morita
512-569-6387 (Cell)


On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Denis Heidtmann
<denis.heidtmann at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
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