How to open new tab in existing terminal session and using keyboard shortcut / modifying global settings

Question

Keyboard shortcut CTRL + ALT + T opens a new terminal window on Linux. By default it opens 1 new terminal window.

1. Is there a way how to customize how many new tabs are going to be opened ? e.g. by using this shortcut it will open 2 tabs by default

2. What is the right keyboard shortcut to open a new tab in existing terminal ?

   • I want to have 2 tabs opened and switch between them with CTRL + Page up

Solution 1

gnome-terminal is the default terminal application on Ubuntu. It does have a command line option that should help:

--tab    Open a new tab in the last-opened window with the default profile

so you could create a custom keyboard shortcut with the command

gnome-terminal --tab

If you wanted to open two tabs you could create a script file like:

#!/bin/sh
gnome-terminal --tab
gnome-terminal --tab

Then call that script file from your keyboard shortcut.

Solution 2

Run gnome-terminal command and add as many --tab options as you need. For instance, gnome-terminal --tab --tab --tab will get you a new window with three tabs. Assign the command to a keyboard shortcut to achieve what your goal.

To open a new tab interactively use Ctrl+Shift+T.

Solution 3

CTRL + ALT + T (Open New Terminal) CTRL + SHIFT + T (Open New Tab in the terminal(Note you should not present on browser while executing this shortcut otherwise last closed browser tab will be opened)

gnome-terminal (open New Terminal) gnome-terminal --tab (open New tab in the terminal)

ALT + (tab number) ex: ALT + 1 (change to First Terminal tab) Alt + 2 (change to second Terminal Tab)

Comments

[ARNAB]

That still opens a new terminal. It does not open a tab in an existing terminal as requested : "open a new tab in existing terminal".

[Stephen Ostermiller]

It does not appear to work with Gnome Terminal version 3.20.2 which is what I currently have installed under Ubuntu. It has worked with earlier versions.

[Stephen Ostermiller]

It looks like it may have never worked and they removed the help that says it did: bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83203

[Nagabhushan S N]

Works in terminal, but doesn't work as keyboard shortcut (open new window). I'm using Ubuntu 18.04

[Nagabhushan S N]

Try this: stackoverflow.com/a/2191093/3337089 Didn't work for me though

[Gabriel Staples]

Super advanced usage of this, including detailed work-arounds to overcome the fact that the gnome-terminal --title and --command options are now unfortunately deprecated: askubuntu.com/questions/315408/….

[尤川豪]

CTRL + SHIFT + T is very useful! Thank you!