How can I open a new terminal window from a terminal in linux?

Daniel Gartmann

Posted 2010-11-26T08:53:22.453

Reputation: 453

– G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' – 2020-01-04T22:11:03.007

Answers

That's system specific. On KDE, just type konsole. On Gnome, it's gnome-terminal. What should work on every X system is xterm.

Edit: Removed the bit about $TERM, as it is an "identifier for the text window’s capabilities" and not necessarily the name of an executable binary.

joni

Posted 2010-11-26T08:53:22.453

Reputation: 476

In Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon I have TERM="xterm-256color" that does not correspond to a binary command to open a terminal :( – giuspen – 2016-12-15T18:50:52.337

2Edited my answer, the thing I wrote about $TERM was based on a wrong assumption. I guess gnome-terminal should work on Mint. – joni – 2017-01-01T16:48:10.007

I think what you want is:

Ctrl+Shift+T -> new tab

Ctrl+Shift+N -> new terminal

Nico Huysamen

Posted 2010-11-26T08:53:22.453

Reputation: 446

+1 because it's a keyboard shortcut...which doesn't address the question asked (as I understand it), but sure helps me! :-) – jvriesem – 2015-09-04T18:13:15.467

The command that I set to run on startup is "x-terminal-emulator" and that opens the terminal we all know and love.

CoffeeWithCream

Posted 2010-11-26T08:53:22.453

Reputation: 33

Press ALT + F2, then type-in gnome-terminal or xterm and Enter.

Ken Ratanachai S.

Posted 2010-11-26T08:53:22.453

Reputation: 1 532

I recommend using an external program such as pcmanfm to launch a new terminal. This way, your root permissions and login state remain in the new terminal.

If you don't have it already, include the first line, otherwise skip this step (or don't, it won't reinstall):
```
# apt-get install pcmanfm
```
Start the filemanager pcmanfm
```
# pcmanfm
```
a file manager window will now open, showing your current working directory.
Select this window and press F4. A new terminal window will now open with your current permissions (eg root).
pcmanfm, the file manager, can now be closed.

Boomkop3

Posted 2010-11-26T08:53:22.453

Reputation: 101

Thx bertieb, it looks a lot better like this. – Boomkop3 – 2015-08-17T01:02:54.413

No problem, you may want to have a glance at the formatting help page - it's a bit different to what you might be used to but you should get up to speed pretty quick :)

– bertieb – 2015-08-17T01:07:20.417

@bertieb: You can still apply numbered formatting by using a period after each number instead. – Jamal – 2015-08-17T01:23:19.800

@Jamal I was avoiding <ol> because (ironically) I couldn't remember how to make it respect multi-line content like code blocks! – bertieb – 2015-08-17T08:21:10.967

If you just have command line access (via ssh, for example), you should research screen.

user54114

Posted 2010-11-26T08:53:22.453

Reputation: 457

In Ubuntu, you can do it using xdotool.

To do so, you have to install xdotool with the command:

sudo apt-get install xdotool

and then you can use the command below to open up a new terminal window:

xdotool key ctrl+alt+t

majid zolfaghari

Posted 2010-11-26T08:53:22.453

Reputation: 11

Additional solution for those running a Linux flavor (Ubuntu etc.) via the Windows Subsystem for Linux:

Shift-click the Linux application icon in your taskbar.

This will open a second terminal window.

hbere

Posted 2010-11-26T08:53:22.453

Reputation: 51

I always do things like this with the disown command.

For example:

lxterminal &disown

And voila, we have a new lxterminal process that is not preoccupying your former terminal with debugging output. This can be used for most programs, not just terminals so I ended up using it a lot, especially good to know for scripting.

Cestarian

Posted 2010-11-26T08:53:22.453

Reputation: 1 418

or this: xterm & – Qwerty – 2016-01-21T13:22:37.520

@Qwerty or that, but doesn't this xterm window close if you close the window that issued the command? If you disown it it will keep running. – Cestarian – 2016-01-24T16:54:31.190