On 05/26/2013 06:23 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > I am ashamed, but I knuckled under and am running Unity. Somehow I managed > to get plain Gnome-terminal on the Launcher some time ago. When I tried to > get the same for a friend on her new install of 12.04, I could not find it > on Dash. While trying to figure out what I had done to get it on my > machine, I detached it from the Launcher, and lost it! Drat!, or words to > that effect. > > So the search began. I did eventually find Byobu Terminal, attached it to > the Launcher, and it seemed OK, but with bells and whistles. So I launched > the man page to try to understand the bells and whistles. OK. Closed the > man page and the instance of Byobu. Now Byobu launches but quits > immediately. > > Don't you love the improvements we keep getting? > > I am happy with plain Gnome-terminal. Dash does not know about it. Found > another terminal (XTerm), launched gnome-terminal, locked it to the > launcher, unlocked the broken Byobu terminal, and now I am back to where I > want to be. > > Anybody here foolish enough to run Unity and have advice on how to more > efficiently deal with Dash and the Launcher? i'm liking Unity a lot more since i figured out how to disable the annoying global menu (at least to the extent of having application menus back in the app windows).
anyway, this thread offers a couple of possible solutions to you problem of items not showing up in the Dash. http://askubuntu.com/questions/225519/applications-not-showing-in-unity-dash Also, fwiw, if you're a heavy terminal user, you should look at terminator (in the standard repo), a multi-pane container for gnome-terminal. ________________________________________ Joe Shisei Niski Portland, Oregon, USA 至誠 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
