3. Menus

Create a new terminal window. This is an efficient way to create multiple terminals, as this uses less system resources than starting a separate copy of GNOME Terminal. (For advanced users: the new terminal window created in this way is owned by the same process, with the same PID as the original terminal. Each window starts its own sub-shell process, however.)

Hides the main menu bar on the terminal, creating a neater, smaller terminal. The menu bar can be retrieved using the pop-up menu.

Closes the current terminal. It also closes any other terminals opened via the command line in that terminal. If this is the last terminal to be closed, then the GNOME Terminal program exits.

Pastes the current selection or clipboard into the terminal. This can also be achieved by pressing the middle mouse button.

Displays the Preferences dialogue, described in Section 4.

Resets the terminal parameters. This will not clear the screen or move the cursor, but any subsequent terminal output will be reset to the default font and attributes.

Resets the terminal parameters, also clearing the screen. All character fonts and attributes are reset.

Can be used to drag-and-drop colours into the terminal. See Section 4.3 for details.

How to get to this document from within GNOME Terminal.

A little bit of kudos for all of the very hard working guys who made it all possible.

Creates a new terminal window.

Displays the Preferences dialogue, described in Section 4.

Checking/unchecking this option shows or hides the menubar at the top of the terminal window.

This option forces all the keyboard input to be sent directly to the terminal, and bypass anything else. This is useful in the (rare) situation when the same X server is used by many users, and the X server is not using proper authentication methods, thus making it possible for other users to snoop on what you are typing. In such a situation, it is advised that you switch to "secure keyboard" mode before entering any confidential information, such as passwords.

Resets the terminal attributes (font and background) without clearing the screen.

Resets the terminal attributes and clears the screen.

If the mouse pointer was over a URL (for example, an Internet address) when the pop-up menu was invoked, then this option is available to launch a browser to view the URL. Using CTRL-left mouse button is a shortcut for this menu item.