How to open terminal on Xubuntu?

Solution 1:

1. Go to Applications Menu (Start menu in Windows) -> Settings -> Settings Manager
2. Find Keyboard and click it.
3. Go to "Applications shortcuts" and click Add button, near the bottom of the window.

4. Don't worry about anything else, just type this in the "Command" field and hit OK.
   Enter: xfce4-terminal

5. As soon as the "Command" dialog opens, hit Ctrl + Alt + t (or any other keyboard shortcut of your preference).

That's it. Close the keyboard window and you're done.

Solution 2:

Default shortcut for Terminal in XUbuntu is super+T instead of ctrl+alt+T

edit:

From what I've just seen, it is default on all machine I tested installed with xubuntu live CD 12.04 but it doesn't work on 1 machine I installed with ubuntu in the past (2008 or 2009) and migrated to xfce installing xubuntu-desktop last year.

Solution 3:

Press Alt+F2, then type xfce4-terminal or xterm to run the terminal.

To get the application menu with the keyboard press Alt+F1.

If that doesn't work you can use the Linux virtual consoles. Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 toF6. This gives you a text only session. To get back to the graphical login press Ctrl+Alt+F7.

Solution 4:

Just adding some useful stuff:

I installed the Xfce desktop from Linux Mint 17.2. The xfce4-terminal is not installed. I could install it but I prefer the gnome terminal. So, for anyone in similar situations, you should follow Frantique's instructions replacing "xfce4-terminal" command with "gnome-terminal".

Peace.