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Terminal has no option to "open new tab" and no label in tabs

rated 0 times [ 29] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 32241 / 2 Years ago, tue, june 7, 2022, 10:05:10

In a fresh install, I have a terminal like everyone else on the Internet, but it is a weird one for me.

Here's what my terminal looks like:

My terminal

It is missing 'user@hostname' above

Note that there's no "open in new tab" action on right click and there's no label on the tabs that show up when I "open a terminal". Also, I don't really like what the shortcut ctrl + shift + t does.

Why is this happening? Is this the expected behaviour?

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answered 2 Years ago ligenvirt · Accepted Answer

This seems to be a newer version of GNOME Terminal update (>3.10). When you open the preferences dialog, you should see something like this:

GNOME Terminal preferences dialog

When you set the "open new terminals" setting to "Tab", the new terminal action will now open a new tab in the same window instead of opening a new window.

The old behaviour regarding tabs seems to have been changed in 3.12 and 3.14, for some reason.

Tabs are back!… Sort of.

You seem to have updated your GNOME components with a version that does not ship with Utopic, so you should expect to see it break.