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Re: getting a terminal window on Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Khusid)
Thu Sep 18 18:43:55 2008
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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:43:08 -0400
From: Michael Khusid <mkhusid@MIT.EDU>
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To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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Under regular Ubuntu, you can simply add a package to add the right
click menu option
|sudo aptitude install nautilus-open-terminal
<apt://nautilus-open-terminal>|
(http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/05/13/nautilus-open-terminal-terminal-quick-launch/)
I haven't gotten by Athena10 running yet, so I don't know if it works
/is compatible with Athena10
Mike
Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 17:40 -0400, Alex T Prengel wrote:
>
>> On Athena 10 I miss the ability to be able to launch a terminal window from
>> a right mouseclick menu on the desktop. Can this be added, or if not, is it
>> something I can configure for myself?
>>
>
> Here's what I do:
>
> - Click applications and navigate to accessories
> - Drag the "Terminal" icon up to the top panel.
>
> Then I can create terminals easily from the panel.
>
> Ideally I would like to make this the default; I think that's justified
> since the Athena environment is fairly terminal-oriented compared to a
> stock Ubuntu install. I haven't done the work of finding out what
> populates the default panel setup and whether we can cleanly change it.
>
>
>
