Get More Out of Gnome-Terminal

I really like cli apps. You can have many many apps running at the same time and use very little resources. Gnome-terminal has some really cool features that alot of us don't know about. I'm going to show you how to set up something like this-

That will launch all at once using a desktop launcher.

The three apps i use most are finch midnight-commander and moc.

So I want to launch all three in the same tabbed terminal window at the same time.

First thing to do is open a single terminal. Right click in the window and select "open tab" and repeat until you have the desired number.

Then issue this command:

gnome-terminal --save-config=.mytabs

This will create a file .mytabs in your home directory.

Now open the file to edit:

nano .mytabs

You should see this:

 

 

 

 

The lines you are concerned with are the blocks that go from [Terminal 00000] to height=#. Each of those blocks represent a tab.

Under the line Profile=default add two lines that look like this:

Command='finch'

Title=Message

Changing the command and title to your needs.

ctrl+x to close

y to save 

and enter.

Next create a custom launcher on your desktop. And make it look like this:

Now when you launch this It should look like the picture at the top!

happy tuxing ;)

Miro review [karmic]

Fedora 12 included Miro by default and after checking out a video about the feature
I decided to install it.  It is available in the Ubuntu repositories so you can find it in synaptic.

It does podcasts

Bittorrent and Bittorrent site search

And also plays and organizes your video and music collections. It is a little resource hungry but not to the point of being unusable.
Check it out!!