4 quick access to a Terminal in Linux

You really need a terminal that is always available in Linux? Here are 4 different ways to quickly access a terminal.

Keyboard shortcut

In Ubuntu and Linux Mint, although the terminal shortcut is a combination of Ctrl + Alt + T. If you want to change this shortcut to open the terminal in your own way, go to Menu > System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts .

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Drag down the window and find the shortcut for ' Run a Terminal '. If you want to change the settings, click Run a terminal and then set the new shortcut as desired.

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Right mouse menu

If you always have to open a terminal and then browse to the place you just opened in Nautilus (the file manager program), you can change the access method with an installation package.

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To install this package, you only have to open Ubuntu Software Center and search for nautilus-open-terminal . Install this package and exit, restart Nautilus.

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Next, right-click the desktop or any folder to open a terminal directly to that folder.

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Drop down terminal

Guake is a drop-down terminal that can give you easy access no matter what you are doing. To install Guake, open the software center and find the guake.

Note : if you use KDE Desktop Environment, you can install YaKuake to get the same feature.

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After you've installed Guake, open your menu and run Guake Terminal.

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Test what you've just done by pressing F12. You will get a drop down terminal. If you press F12 again, this terminal will disappear.

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You can change the existing preferences by right-clicking on the icon tray and selecting preferences.

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You can change the shortcut, the width of the terminal window, hide the terminal here.

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If you want Guake to be available every time you log in, add it as a startup application (the application starts with the operating system). To do this, open Control Center > System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications .

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Then add Guake as a program that starts with the operating system.

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Mount the terminal on the desktop

The final method of being able to access a terminal quickly is to mount the terminal right on your desktop. To do this, your computer must run Compiz desktop effects.

The first step is to install a new terminal profile. Open the terminal > File -> New Profile . You should give this profile a unique name so you can distinguish it from the terminal we are about to attach. In the example, we name this terminal window as embedded-HTG-term .

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In the profile settings window will display the settings and you will have to reset the new profile we just created with the following information:

Show menubar : off

Initial title : embedded-HTG-term

Khi kết nối lệnh đặt tên danh sách tên : Hold the original title

Color scheme : Choose the color that matches your desktop

Transparent Background : Move the slider to the level you want, making it easy to see the characters.

Scrollbar : disabled

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Next, go to Compiz Configuration Manager and activate the plugins: regex matching, window decoration, window rules, and place windows.

In the window decoration section, add the following line :! Title = ^ embedded-HTG-term $

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In the window rules plugin, add the following line: title = ^ embedded-HTG-term $ to: Skip taskbar, Skip pager, Below, Sticky, Non resizable window, Non minimizable window, Non maximizable window, and Non closeable window.

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In the place window plugin section , click the Fixed window placement tab and then add the new item in windows with fixed positions . Name this new item with title = ^ embedded-HTG-term $ .

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Now you can press Alt + F12 and type gnome-terminal –window-with-profile = embedded-HTG-term to display a terminal window mounted on the desktop.

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If you do not want to display the cursor in the new terminal, open gconf-editor and browse to apps / gnome-terminal / profiles / Profile1 / cursor_blink_mode and set the value to off . In fact, this step you can still ignore.

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So we have successfully implemented 4 ways to quickly access a terminal in Linux. Good luck!