[ale] What happened to the command line

[Scott Castaline]

Dan Lambert wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 13:20 -0500, Scott Castaline wrote:
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>> Dan Lambert wrote:
>>     
>>> I don't seem to have any problem with the versions I'm using. I have Deb
>>> Etch and Unbuntu 7.10 installed, as well as a test machine with Ubuntu
>>> 8.04 Alpha 5.
>>>
>>> It's not a problem to find a terminal to open. You just have to figure
>>> where in the GUI they hid the good stuff.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 13:01 -0500, Atlanta Geek wrote:
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>>>       
>>>> Has anyone noticed that it is getting harder and harder to find the
>>>> terminal on these newer Linux distributions.
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>>>   
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>> I've noticed that Fedora moves it back and forth between Accessories and 
>> System Tools. I don't know about Fedora 8 yet.
>>     
>
> I've seen the same thing. The first thing I usually do is to set up a
> keystroke shortcut to bring up a terminal session. It seems that most of
> the versions I've used don't have <ALT>+F12 used, so I always set that
> up as the shortcut. That way, regardless of which box I'm using, if I
> want a terminal, all I do is hit <ALT>+F12, and I have one right there.
> No hunting.
>
> Dan
>
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That's pretty much what I do. I'll have Ctrl-Alt-T for terminal and 
Ctrl-Alt-H for home directory in my file manger. I'll also create a 
desktop icon for terminal as well.