Shortcut to open terminal windows#

Pressing the dropdown menu should reveal a shortcut to open the Command Prompt application.

Shortcut to open terminal windows#

Windows: On Windows 10, open the start menu and go to the shortcuts folder called “Windows System”.

When you see your username followed by a dollar sign, you’re ready to start using command line. Again, this should open up an app with a black background.

Linux: You can open Terminal by directly pressing or you can search it up by clicking the “Dash” icon, typing in “terminal” in the search box, and opening the Terminal application.This should open up an app with a black background. Select the application called terminal and press the return key. MacOS: Open spotlight search (default way to do this is by hitting command and the space bar) and type in “terminal”.There are varying ways of accessing command line, depending on what operating system you use. No worries! It’s just a simple way to tell your computer what to do.

If you’ve just started coding, you may have no idea what command line even is. Your profile may be named something different but the key will be in the same place.Opening Command Line. Open gconf-editor and browse to apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Profile1/cursor_blink_mode and set the value to “off”. One last optional step if you don’t want a blinking cursor in your new terminal. If you need to close the embedded terminal type the command “exit” (without quotes). Note: although this terminal is “below” all open windows it is still “above” your desktop icons so make sure you move them out of the way. Now you should be able to press Alt+F2 and type in gnome-terminal –window-with-profile=embedded-HTG-term and you should get a terminal window embedded on your desktop background. 500×500 will put the top left corner of your window 500 pixels from the top and 500 pixels from the left of your screen.) If you do not like your window placement you can always hold Alt and drag the window to a new location with the left mouse button. Your window position will be based on where you want the top left corner of your window to be (eg. Note: Window placement starts in the top left corner of your screen with 0,0 and counts up to the bottom right corner. Next go to your Compiz Configuration Manager and activate these plugins if they are not already activated: regex matching, window decoration, window rules, and place windows.

Transparent Background: On, Move the slider to whatever level lets you easily see the text on your desktop wallpaper. When terminal commands set their own title: Keep initial titleĬolor scheme: Black on white will only show black text on your desktop but you can pick whatever will match your theme/background. In the profile settings window that comes up change these settings for the new profile we just created. We will name the window embedded-HTG-term for this example but you can name it whatever you want. It is very important to name this profile something unique because the window name is how we are going to identify the window to embed it. To do this open your terminal and then go to File -> New Profile. The first step is set up a new terminal profile.