I'm using LM 18.3. In the Main Menu editor, I right-clicked > delete on the Terminal icon. This made sense: I had a copy of it in another folder. Yet this action deleted them both.
I'm not finding a way to add or restore Terminal to the menu. Suggestions?
P.S. While I was at it, I deleted the xTerm icon and its companion, which I think was called uxTerm. I believe in being thorough.
How to Restore Terminal to the Menu
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Re: How to Restore Terminal to the Menu
Manaully recreate the entry - the command is
gnome-terminal
.apt reinstall gnome-terminal
should also do the trick.For custom Nemo actions, useful scripts for the Cinnamon desktop, and Cinnamox themes visit my Github pages.
Re: How to Restore Terminal to the Menu
Ctrl-Alt-T worked. Thanks for that.
So, you're right, gnome-terminal wasn't gone. As it turns out, there's still a ~/.local/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop file. But for some reason that .desktop file doesn't cause an automatic Terminal entry in the Menu. If I edit the menu to add a Terminal entry, it creates a file in that ~/.local/share/applications folder named alacarte-made-ff53a43e...desktop, and I can edit that one to contain "Icon=utilities-terminal" so that the icon is right.
I would rather have just the gnome-terminal.desktop file. How can I get it to register in the Menu?
So, you're right, gnome-terminal wasn't gone. As it turns out, there's still a ~/.local/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop file. But for some reason that .desktop file doesn't cause an automatic Terminal entry in the Menu. If I edit the menu to add a Terminal entry, it creates a file in that ~/.local/share/applications folder named alacarte-made-ff53a43e...desktop, and I can edit that one to contain "Icon=utilities-terminal" so that the icon is right.
I would rather have just the gnome-terminal.desktop file. How can I get it to register in the Menu?
Re: How to Restore Terminal to the Menu
Hi, raywood.
Inspect the file $HOME/.local/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop.
There might be a line in it reading
Either changing
By the way, each Mint comes with a menu editor (no, not alacarte).
You can either locate it in the Preferences sub-menu or in the System sub-menu. May depend on the exact Mint edition.
Or you right click on the [Mint] menu button and click on "Edit menu ...".
Inside the menu editor, each menu item will have a property "Visible", enabled by default. In case an item is disabled, you can enable it.
HTH,
Karl
Inspect the file $HOME/.local/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop.
There might be a line in it reading
NoDisplay=true
, which will make the application menu not display the corresponding menu item Gnome Terminal. Either changing
NoDisplay=true
to NoDisplay=false
or removing the line completely will make the menu item visible again.By the way, each Mint comes with a menu editor (no, not alacarte).
You can either locate it in the Preferences sub-menu or in the System sub-menu. May depend on the exact Mint edition.
Or you right click on the [Mint] menu button and click on "Edit menu ...".
Inside the menu editor, each menu item will have a property "Visible", enabled by default. In case an item is disabled, you can enable it.
HTH,
Karl
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