[gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

[gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   How does one add a specific operation to the right click menu one
gets on the Gnome desktop?

   I really want to get this back. In Gnome, I've always had an 'Open
Terminal' when I right click on the desktop. It's gone missing as of
today's updates on two of our machines.

   Thanks in advance for letting me know how to do this.

thanks,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

[ellotheth rimmwen]

On 2/2/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:

>    How does one add a specific operation to the right click menu one
> gets on the Gnome desktop?
>
>    I really want to get this back. In Gnome, I've always had an 'Open
> Terminal' when I right click on the desktop. It's gone missing as of
> today's updates on two of our machines.

Ah, and I thought I was the only one. I dual-boot Ubuntu on my
husband's box, and noticed the same thing. Aggravating.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

[Mark Knecht]

On 2/3/06, ellotheth rimmwen <ellotheth@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/2/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >    How does one add a specific operation to the right click menu one
> > gets on the Gnome desktop?
> >
> >    I really want to get this back. In Gnome, I've always had an 'Open
> > Terminal' when I right click on the desktop. It's gone missing as of
> > today's updates on two of our machines.
>
> Ah, and I thought I was the only one. I dual-boot Ubuntu on my
> husband's box, and noticed the same thing. Aggravating.
>

Yeah. Very. It wouldn't be so frustrating if I knew *anything* about
how this little menu gets configured but I haven't found any docs yet
that explain it. I really cannot believe that it's some hardwired
thing I have no control over. (Is it?) ;-)

Cheers,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

[Michael Sullivan]

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 09:40 -0500, ellotheth rimmwen wrote:
> On 2/2/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >    How does one add a specific operation to the right click menu one
> > gets on the Gnome desktop?
> >
> >    I really want to get this back. In Gnome, I've always had an 'Open
> > Terminal' when I right click on the desktop. It's gone missing as of
> > today's updates on two of our machines.
> 
> Ah, and I thought I was the only one. I dual-boot Ubuntu on my
> husband's box, and noticed the same thing. Aggravating.
> 
> --
> ellotheth rimmwen
> * monjoy *
> 

My wife commented to me that the "Run Application" option is no longer
on the Main Menu.  I made a panel button in her account for that, but
other than making a button for gnome-terminal or typing it in a Run box
I have no idea...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

[Mark Knecht]

On 2/3/06, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 09:40 -0500, ellotheth rimmwen wrote:
> > On 2/2/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >    How does one add a specific operation to the right click menu one
> > > gets on the Gnome desktop?
> > >
> > >    I really want to get this back. In Gnome, I've always had an 'Open
> > > Terminal' when I right click on the desktop. It's gone missing as of
> > > today's updates on two of our machines.
> >
> > Ah, and I thought I was the only one. I dual-boot Ubuntu on my
> > husband's box, and noticed the same thing. Aggravating.
> >
> > --
> > ellotheth rimmwen
> > * monjoy *
> >
>
> My wife commented to me that the "Run Application" option is no longer
> on the Main Menu.  I made a panel button in her account for that, but
> other than making a button for gnome-terminal or typing it in a Run box
> I have no idea...

Yeah, I keep a terminal launch button available on the gnome-panel but
I'm very used to right clicking and choosign the first one without
looking. Now I'm getting lots of new folder on my desktop and no
terminals!

Ah grump....

- Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

[Stroller]

On 3 Feb 2006, at 23:18, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> Yeah, I keep a terminal launch button available on the gnome-panel but
> I'm very used to right clicking and choosign the first one without
> looking. Now I'm getting lots of new folder on my desktop and no
> terminals!

Maybe the Gnome developers decided the "typical" user wouldn't want  
to do this and decided that they'd remove it because it was confusing  
little old ladies. Have we had a flamewar about KDE vs Gnome  
recently?  ;P

Stroller.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

[Mark Knecht]

On 2/3/06, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 3 Feb 2006, at 23:18, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, I keep a terminal launch button available on the gnome-panel but
> > I'm very used to right clicking and choosign the first one without
> > looking. Now I'm getting lots of new folder on my desktop and no
> > terminals!
>
> Maybe the Gnome developers decided the "typical" user wouldn't want
> to do this and decided that they'd remove it because it was confusing
> little old ladies. Have we had a flamewar about KDE vs Gnome
> recently?  ;P
>
> Stroller.

LOL! Yeah, that's true!

As an aside - if it's really a code change I wonder where to look to
put it back in?

Still chuckling,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:49:51 +0000, Stroller wrote:

> Maybe the Gnome developers decided the "typical" user wouldn't want  
> to do this and decided that they'd remove it because it was confusing  
> little old ladies. Have we had a flamewar about KDE vs Gnome  
> recently?  ;P

Define "recently" ;-)


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Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

[Michael Sullivan]

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 15:31 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:49:51 +0000, Stroller wrote:
> 
> > Maybe the Gnome developers decided the "typical" user wouldn't want  
> > to do this and decided that they'd remove it because it was confusing  
> > little old ladies. Have we had a flamewar about KDE vs Gnome  
> > recently?  ;P
> 
> Define "recently" ;-)
> 

I believe the thread was called "How Many People Use KDE?" THAT
recently.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

[Mark Knecht]

On 2/4/06, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 15:31 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:49:51 +0000, Stroller wrote:
> >
> > > Maybe the Gnome developers decided the "typical" user wouldn't want
> > > to do this and decided that they'd remove it because it was confusing
> > > little old ladies. Have we had a flamewar about KDE vs Gnome
> > > recently?  ;P
> >
> > Define "recently" ;-)
> >
>
> I believe the thread was called "How Many People Use KDE?" THAT
> recently.
>

So I guess the consensus so far is this stupid menu is hardwaired and
cannot be configured at all?

How disappointing!

- Mark

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[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click

[Mark Knecht]

On 2/2/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    How does one add a specific operation to the right click menu one
> gets on the Gnome desktop?
>
>    I really want to get this back. In Gnome, I've always had an 'Open
> Terminal' when I right click on the desktop. It's gone missing as of
> today's updates on two of our machines.
>
>    Thanks in advance for letting me know how to do this.
>
> thanks,
> Mark
>

Hi,
   This solution is specific to the missing Open Terminal in the Gnome
2.12 release. You can emerge nautilus-open-terminal and then do a
killall nautilus and you'll have the Open Terminal back in the desktop
menu. Only downside so far is that it's not at the top like it used to
be, but at least it's there.

Hope this helps,
Mark

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