Bug#504463: gnome-terminal: Command-line way to open new tab in existing terminal

[Josh Triplett]

On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 10:02 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 03 novembre 2008 à 23:05 -0800, Josh Triplett a écrit :
> > I'd like to have some way of opening a new tab in an existing
> > terminal.  This would make it possible to create keyboard shortcuts to
> > open a new terminal tab (rather than a new window), and to script
> > opening a program in a new tab (such as a non-GUI editor).
> 
> Theoretically this should work with --tab, but it does not. I’ll try to
> have a look.

Thanks!

> > Ideally I'd like some way to make gnome-terminal do this by default,
> > so that any program that attempts to open a new terminal will end up
> > creating a new tab in my existing terminal window.
> 
> If a command-line option is available, this could be made to appear in
> the “preferred applications” capplet.

I'd also like it for the x-terminal-emulator alternative, for all the
programs which start terminals that way.

- Josh Triplett

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