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

Question

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

Solution 1

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.

Solution 2

I think what you want is:

Ctrl+Shift+T -> new tab

or

Ctrl+Shift+N -> new terminal

Solution 3

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

Solution 4

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.

1. 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
   

2. Start the filemanager pcmanfm

   # pcmanfm
   

   a file manager window will now open, showing your current working directory.

3. Select this window and press F4. A new terminal window will now open with your current permissions (eg root).

4. pcmanfm, the file manager, can now be closed.

Solution 5

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

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Comments

[Admin]

Related: How to launch an application with default “terminal emulator” on Ubuntu? and Why does “man x-terminal-emulator” return the output of “man gnome-terminal”?

[Admin]

Why don't you simply do a xterm &? Please also specify what GUI (Desktop) you are using.

[Boomkop3]

Thx bertieb, it looks a lot better like this.

[bertieb]

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 :)

[Jamal]

@bertieb: You can still apply numbered formatting by using a period after each number instead.

[bertieb]

@Jamal I was avoiding <ol> because (ironically) I couldn't remember how to make it respect multi-line content like code blocks!

[jvriesem]

+1 because it's a keyboard shortcut...which doesn't address the question asked (as I understand it), but sure helps me! :-)

[Qwerty]

or this: xterm &

[Cestarian]

@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.

[giuspen]

In Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon I have TERM="xterm-256color" that does not correspond to a binary command to open a terminal :(

[joni]

Edited my answer, the thing I wrote about $TERM was based on a wrong assumption. I guess gnome-terminal should work on Mint.

[Andrew]

gnome-terminal -- commandhere askubuntu.com/q/974756/462615

[Community]

Please provide additional details in your answer. As it's currently written, it's hard to understand your solution.

[Scott - Слава Україні]

If there really are such things as genome-terminal and “pathenom”,  please provide references.