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[bigscary]

eeebuntu 2.0 NBR up and running, initial twiddling complete (OO.org->3.0, iPod management software out). I'm liking it so far. The big plus is that firefox doesn't choke and die on things that made it do so previously, the big minus is that ctrl-alt-t no longer invokes xterm (anyone have a quick solution for that?)

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[(Anonymous)]

Have you tried CTRL-ALT F4?

CTRL-ALT F7 to get back out.

[jlc.livejournal.com]

ctrl-alt-t no longer invokes xterm (anyone have a quick solution for that?)
What windowmanager are you using? Are you running a desktop environment (e.g. GNOME or KDE) on top of it? If the answer to the latter is yes, then you can use the preferences interface in either one to set that shortcut. If the answer is no, it will depend on your WM.

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

Thanks to both of you, I'll investigate your suggestions.

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

That's way too many Es.

It looks like you're probably running with a Gnome-based system, unless you did the NBR install (which may still be gnome-based anyway). However, looking at screenshots, it seems they cleverly hid the standard menus. Boo.

Anyway, you want System -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts, which should have a "Desktop" section which allows you to set a hotkey for a number of things including "run a terminal." If that doesn't show, the command line should be gnome-keybinding-properties or you can right-click on the foot and do "Edit Menus" to edit it so that it's actually visible.

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

exactly right! Thanks!

[freekofnature.livejournal.com]

Use Konsole.
Works much better... And Multiple sessions!!

[jlc.livejournal.com]

Bah. Use screen.

It's also likely that 'xterm' in this case means "that terminal thinggy that runs in X" and not xterm itself.

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

No, it's xterm-- something else was previously default, but I perversely fixed that.

Now it looks like I've somehow borked my speakers -- users report this is a not unknown failure state (speakers nothing, headphones fine) fixable by a reinstall.

So off I go!

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

Reinstall fixed it, tonight I get to retake updates, hopefully not breaking it again (and if it does, reinstalling and NOT taking that update).