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 <[email protected]>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 > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
