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Nick Bailuc
Asked: 2014-07-09 10:58:34 +0800 CST

Launch gnome-terminal into GUI via TTY

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My GUI is completely messed up and I need to get the gnome terminal working. Ctrl-Alt-T doesn't work because Unity or Gnome are broken. All I'm getting is a mouse and another program that I launched with other keys. I need to login into TTY (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and write a command that will open the gnome terminal in the GUI (Ctrl+Alt+F7). I already tried nohup and some other command I don't remember. I have also tried placing the terminal into startup but it didn't start at boot.

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  1. Best Answer

    From tty1 you can open the gnome-terminal in tty7 (where the GUI should be started) by running the following command:

    env DISPLAY=:0 gnome-terminal

    See some more explanations in this post.

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