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Choosing a terminal

Choosing a terminal - Linux Tutorial

From the course: Linux CentOS 7: Desktops and Remote Access (2016)

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Choosing a terminal

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- [Instructor] Choosing a terminal can be a personal choice and doesn't affect how your system operates for others. Keep in mind it's just an application you use to run commands, however, some terminals may have features that help you be more productive. The default terminal installed in GNOME is gnome terminal. This is the terminal we've been using so far. If for some reason, gnome terminal is not installed, you can install it by running, in any terminal, sudo yum install gnome-terminal and you'd hit enter and it would install it. Since we already have it installed, we'll go ahead and take a look around. We'll go to File and select Open Terminal. By default, this opens a separate window. Let's go ahead and close that and go to Edit, Preferences, and we can choose at the bottom Open new terminals in Tab, close the dialog. Now when we go to Open Terminal, it opens a new tab. We can press left control, page up and page down to…

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