Ubuntu – Possible to customize Terminal context (right-click) menu

command linecontext menucustomizationgnome-terminal

I am making the transition to Ubuntu 10.0.04 from years of Windows. It would help if the terminal could have the right-click context menu display the copy command first in the command list, instead of like, 4th. There must be a way to change the ordering of items in the context menu. How would you configure the Terminal (or any) context menu in Ubuntu?

Best Answer

First things first: I don't know if it is per-user configurable.

But a workaround is possible thanks to the easy to edit XML files, which describe the user interface. On Ubuntu 12.10, in the file /usr/share/gnome-terminal/terminal.xml simply move the line <menuitem action="PopupCopy" /> to the top below <popup name="Popup" action="Popup">. Or to be semantically consistent:

diff --git a/terminal.xml b/terminal.xml
index 3c9cbed..f7b7757 100644
--- a/terminal.xml
+++ b/terminal.xml
@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@
   </menubar>

   <popup name="Popup" action="Popup">
+    <menuitem action="PopupCopy" />
+    <menuitem action="PopupPaste" />
+    <menuitem action="PopupPasteURIPaths" />
+    <separator />
     <menuitem action="PopupSendEmail" />
     <menuitem action="PopupCopyEmailAddress" />
     <menuitem action="PopupCall" />
@@ -91,10 +95,6 @@
     <menuitem action="PopupCloseTab" />
     <menuitem action="PopupCloseWindow" />
     <separator />
-    <menuitem action="PopupCopy" />
-    <menuitem action="PopupPaste" />
-    <menuitem action="PopupPasteURIPaths" />
-    <separator />
     <menu action="PopupTerminalProfiles">
         <placeholder name="ProfilesPH" />
         <separator />
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