
And, if there is no gnome-terminal running, it will start one. This works from any window, you don't have to be in a gnome-terminal window to run it. The following script will open a new tab in the current gnome-terminal window and optionally give that tab a title. This also seems to happen when running xfce4-terminal from Xfce's terminal, konsole from KDE's as well (doesn't seem to work when running xterm from xterm (see also xterm xterm) - Running konsole from Gnome/Unity & Xfce's terminal works as well, but for Xfce's terminal in gnome terminal you need xfce4-terminal & disown).įor more visit gnome-terminal's manual page: gnome-terminal

However the parent terminal seems to detect that the same command is being used so you don't need to do that and gnome-terminal will suffice.

Normally if you want a command to open from the terminal and separate (so it returns to the prompt without having to close the opened program), you have to use something like this: gnome-terminal & disown Just this command will do: gnome-terminal
