Opening a terminal [LWN.net]

Opening a terminal

Posted Feb 18, 2012 18:20 UTC (Sat) by sladen (guest, #27402)
In reply to: Opening a terminal by boog
Parent article: Lea: The Unity design process (and how you can play a part in it)

Ctrl+Alt+t

The hot key is the fastest way for a power-user; an intermediate speed method is <super> t e r m <enter>. Once running, one can right-click on the Launcher Terminal icon and tick "Keep in Launcher" to make it omni-present. Note that both Ubuntu and Mac OS X do not show a Terminal by default, but one can find it by searching.

Opening a terminal

Posted Feb 20, 2012 11:30 UTC (Mon) by etienne (guest, #25256) [Link]

In my experience, the intermediate is more:
<super> term
then look at the screen to note that the first three letters have been missed and only thing starting with "m" are displayed, then backspace and retype "t e r m" and then check that the first found application is "terminal" and not "terminal - supervisor" so that either you press <enter> or get the mouse and click on the second icon...