On Thursday 08 February 2007 14:28, Nick Murtagh wrote:
> > Eg it seems absurdly difficult to get a terminal window -
>> Applications > Accessories > Terminal
That did indeed seem the only way to get a terminal window,
which incidentally is not remembered when I re-boot,
as it is under Fedora.
> > for some reason I couldn't add the Terminal applet to my panel
> > under Ubuntu Gnome.
>> Right click on Panel > Add to Panel > Application Launcher >
> Accessories > Terminal > Add > Close
I tried that.
For some reason, although Terminal was listed under Applications=>Terminal,
this entry did not appear in Add to Panel
(although most if not all the other items appeared).
> > And I couldn't work out how to add an item to the main menu.
>> Right click on menu applet, Edit Menus
Thanks.
I'll try that next time I'm running Gnome.
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