Ubuntu
gnome-terminal package

New Terminal and Terminal both do the same thing

Bug #926509 reported by Dylan McCall on 2012-02-04

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

When I right click the Terminal icon in Unity's launcher, I am greeted by two options. First, "New Terminal." Then, "Terminal" in bold.

These buttons both do the same thing when the application is not running. When it is running, Terminal focuses the terminal application and New Terminal opens a new window. This behaviour feels inconsistent and it would be much clearer if New Terminal would only appear when Terminal is running.

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Dylan McCall (dylanmccall) wrote on 2012-02-04:

Screenshot of redundant quicklist items for Terminal Edit (37.8 KiB, image/png)

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2012-02-04:

for that terminal needs to be patched to create dynamic quicklist and the static one to be removed.

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Triaged
Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
Changed in unity:
importance:	Undecided → Low
Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged

Andrea Azzarone (azzar1) on 2016-08-02

no longer affects:	unity
no longer affects:	unity (Ubuntu)

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skipper (attila-egri-nagy) wrote on 2016-11-17:

Now I have this in 16.10.
It is quite disruptive for my workflow as I end up with many unwanted terminal windows, except getting to the one I want to use.

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skipper (attila-egri-nagy) wrote on 2016-11-17:

Sorry, this may be not exactly the problem I have. My problem is that I get a new window regardless there is one already running or not.