Launch terminal in linux

How to Open Terminal in Ubuntu Linux

When you are absolutely new to Ubuntu, even the simplest things like opening the terminal could be overwhelming.

When you are absolutely new to Ubuntu, things could be overwhelming at the beginning. Even the simplest of the tasks like opening a terminal window in Ubuntu could seem complicated. That’s okay. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. You are in a completely new environment and it could take some time to getting used to it. Let’s focus on the terminal here and let me show a few ways to launch the terminal in Ubuntu.

Method 1: Launch Ubuntu terminal using keyboard shortcut

I find using keyboard shortcuts in Ubuntu a lot more convenient. To open a terminal, you can press Ctrl, Alt and T keys together.

It’s not that complicated. Press and hold Ctrl first and then press Alt key and hold on to it as well. When you are holding both Ctrl and Alt keys, press T and you’ll see that a new terminal window is opened. That was easy, right? But I can understand that you may not remember the shortcut always, even though it is really easy. In that case, the second method comes to your rescue.

Method 2: Open terminal from the menu

This is the generic method for opening any installed application in Ubuntu. Press the Windows key (also known as super key in Linux) and type terminal. It will show the terminal application icon and you click on it to launch the terminal. You can use this method to launch any other application. Just type the name of the application and it will show all the installed applications that match your searched term. You cannot go wrong with this method.

Bonus Tip: Open current directory location in terminal from Nautilus

Did you know that you can open a particular location in the terminal from the file explorer (called Nautilus)? When you are in the file explorer, right click on an empty space. In the context menu, you’ll see the option of ‘Open in Terminal’. You click on this option and it will open a new terminal window with the same directory location you were in the file explorer. This saves some time when you are in a deeply nested directory and have to edit something there in the terminal. That’s cool. You learned not only to open a terminal window in Ubuntu but also learned to open a terminal with a specific directory from Nautilus. How cool is that?

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How do I open a terminal? [duplicate]

I just got ubuntu running on my computer and now I am ready to write a program. but I can’t figure out how to open a command terminal. I guess I don’t know where to find which version I am running either. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

I was using a different version last week that had a nice little icon on the top of the screen that just launched it.

@Mik Hm, I think closing that one was a mistake. «What is a terminal» and «How to open a terminal» are two separate questions.

@EliahKagan Yes, but that is against the principals of Q&A. Questions should not be a FAQ. It does not follow that the questions «What is X» and «Where is X» should be consolidated.

@JacobJohanEdwards You may want to post on meta about this. I think you’re construing the appropriate scope of a question far more narrowly than is commonplace on Ask Ubuntu or any Stack Exchange site. But I’m just one person; you may be able to persuade the community at large otherwise.

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• Open the Dash by clicking the Ubuntu icon in the upper-left, type «terminal», and select the Terminal application from the results that appear.
• Hit the keyboard shortcut Ctrl — Alt + T .

interestingly i tried searching for «prompt», «command prompt», «shell», and «bash» and of course none of those was useful.

There are a couple of methods:

• If you’re running Unity: open the dash, type terminal, hit Return .
• If you’re on the old style menus, Applications → Accessories → Terminal.
• Control + Alt + T .
• Alt + F2 , gnome-terminal , Return .
• For a TTY: Control + Alt + F1..7 .

If you’re using Ubuntu variants, you might need to substitute gnome-terminal for xfce4-terminal , konsole or if you’ve gone off-piste, terminator (my fav) or if you’re running out of options, xterm . There are others — many, many others — but I doubt you’ll ever find them on a *buntu default install.

The TTYs are your last, best hope if you desperately need some form of terminal. Just be aware that they’re not conscious of the graphical environment so if you want to launch something graphical from one, you’ll need to run export DISPLAY=:0 first. Or adapt that if you’re running more than one X display.

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The quickest way to open the Terminal application in Ubuntu is to use one of the major keyboard shortcuts. You can also search for Terminal in the Dash, or add a shortcut to your Launcher. In older versions of Ubuntu, you can find it in the Applications folder.

Using Keyboard Shortcuts

Press . ⊞ Win + T (Xubuntu only). This Xubuntu-specific shortcut will also launch Terminal. [2] X Research source

• Click the «System settings» button in the Launcher bar.
• Click the «Keyboard» option in the «Hardware» section.
• Click the «Shortcuts» tab.
• Click the «Launchers» category and then highlight «Launch terminal.»
• Press your new keyboard shortcut.

Using the Dash

Using a Launcher Shortcut

Using Ubuntu 10.04 and Earlier

Click the Applications button. This can be found in the Launcher bar in older versions of Ubuntu. [5] X Research source

Community Q&A

You can either use a software like the program «Clean my Mac» or you can put the program in your dock. When in dock, you can right click (or hold the left click button) and press »alternatives’.’ From there you may navigate to the button saying «open» on «login.» If you press that button, the terminal won’t open anymore.

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