Open Terminal in Ubuntu using GUI: In Prior version of Ubuntu 11.02, Ubuntu was using Gnome as GUI but Ubuntu has dropped Gnome and switched to Unity, which is very different from Gnome. Many people have faced trouble in finding Terminal Window manually on Ubuntu later version of 11.02 Unity. open the python installation file with ==> sudo gedit /usr/bin/gnome-terminal this will open a python file and replace python 3 with python 3.6 in the first line #!usr….python3.6 Reply Aug 28, 2012 · In this tutorial I will be showing you how to enable right click on the desktop to open the terminal. Guide: http://wilson18.com/topic/7-how-to-open-terminal Jul 12, 2020 · How to run terminal as administrator in Ubuntu. Learn how to run terminal as root Ubuntu Linux; how to go to root user in Ubuntu. Users can open root terminal in Ubuntu Linux Systems. Using Sudo Command. sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified by the security policy. Open the Dash by clicking the Ubuntu icon in the upper-left, type "terminal", and select the Terminal application from the results that appear. Hit the keyboard shortcut Ctrl - Alt + T . share | improve this answer | follow |

The terminal locks when you are running an application from it as long as the application is running. With the ampersand (&) you can start the application in the background and still use the terminal. Type: user@host:~# firefox & To start firefox in the background. Output of the application will still be in the terminal.

So, without much ado, here’s how to open a terminal with permanent root privileges. Press Alt+F2. The “Run Application” dialog will pop up. Type “gnome-terminal” in the dialog and press “Enter”. This will open a new terminal window without admin rights. Now, in the new terminal window, type “sudo gnome-terminal”.