Ubuntu – Upgrade to 15.04: What happened to the gnome-terminal tabs

15.04gnome-terminal

Evidently, part of the upgrade to Ubuntu 15.04 involves an upgrade to gnome-terminal that removes the old feature that allows new terminal windows to be opened as a tab, instead of a new window.

If I had known this before the upgrade, I literally wouldn't have upgraded. Full stop. I manage many servers, and having an SSH client that allows new sessions in a tab is essential. Opening new windows for 15 servers is completely unmanageable.

In this screenshot, you can see the "open sessions" menu option. There used to also be an "open tab" menu option, with the complete list of sessions I have saved. It's gone now.

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Best Answer

Just downgrade to good old 3.6.2 like me did.

If you have a 64-bit install:

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-data_3.6.2-0ubuntu1_all.deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal_3.6.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i gnome-terminal_3.6.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb gnome-terminal-data_3.6.2-0ubuntu1_all.deb
sudo apt-mark hold gnome-terminal
sudo apt-mark hold gnome-terminal-data

For 32-bit:

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-data_3.6.2-0ubuntu1_all.deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal_3.6.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i gnome-terminal_3.6.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb gnome-terminal-data_3.6.2-0ubuntu1_all.deb
sudo apt-mark hold gnome-terminal
sudo apt-mark hold gnome-terminal-data
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