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gnome-terminal package

Cannot disable menubar

Asked by Steffen

Hi,

this relates to

gnome-terminal --version
GNOME Terminal 3.0.1

of 11.10.

I am trying to get rid of the menubar in the terminal. My profile setting has the 'Show menubar by default in new terminals' unticked. If I start a new terminal (either by Ctrl-Alt-t or running gnome-terminal from an existing terminal) it starts without the menubar, then shrinks the window vertically by two or three lines and then shows menubar (that happens within half a second or so, it is slow enough to see that first the correct terminal appears and then the menubar pops up).

A terminal that has so appeared funnily misses the tick for 'Show Menubar' in the 'View' Menu. I can click on it, so getting the item tick and then click again to finally remove the menubar. Not quite what I want to be doing in every terminal I open.

Anyone having that problem?

Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Not sure how to cure the menubar thing but if you install guake and run it, you can then use F12 to hide and show a terminal. Give it a go, see what you think. You can always remove it

Not really a fix to the issue but worth a look, if you use terminal a lot I can strongly advise using it. If you use KDE instead of Gnome then use yakuake

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Steffen (satlank) said : 		#2

Thanks, guake looks nice but is too specific for me.

I really need a proper terminal :) and since I am really trying to give gnome yet another chance, I'd like to use gnome-terminal (I am coming from fvwm2 with xterms). Plus its behaviour does seem pretty odd and is either a bug or I am missing some configuration options (which are possibly hidden somewhere in the 'registry').

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Steffen (satlank) said : 		#3

Okay, never mind, there is already a bug.

Got confused about navigating launchpad, sorry. :)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

It is a proper terminal, it just hides and shows with a keypress, it even uses xterm as it's backend. How is it "too specific"?

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Steffen (satlank) said : 		#5

Yes, it is a terminal. One (yes, there are tabs, I don't use them). That is fixed in position (and essentially size).

It is certainly very handy for some things, e.g. for doing something quickly it is nice to pull it down and just have a quick look at top or something like that. But I really do most of my work in consoles, so I need to be able to move the windows around, change their sizes, etc. That is what I mean with 'proper'. guake would be able to cover some of my needs, but not all, hence it is 'too specific' (for me, that is).

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

you can resize guake, just not as easily as a gnome-terminal