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.
If you want to know how to fix this problem, the new version has the option to open all new terminals in a tab. Go to Edit -> Preferences and then change "Open new terminals in: Window" to "Tab".
Just downgrade to good old 3.6.2 like me did.
If you have a 64-bit install:
For 32-bit:
Downgrading kinda works but it isn't the best option since newer versions always have bug/security fixes.
The best option for you is installing mate-terminal, which is a regularly-updated fork of gnome-terminal that still has tabs and all of the bells and whistles you're accustomed to. I've got it running on my system now since gnome-terminal removed that tabs feature.
It's nearly identical but it's not missing features! Hooray!
Try terminator for multi windows including broadcasting the same command to all open terminals...
http://gnometerminator.blogspot.co.uk/p/introduction.html
Use Ctrl + Shift + T to open 1st new tab. Subsequent tabs can be opened with the
+
button (in the gui, not the keyboard).gnome-terminal is now so broken it is basically a bad joke. Profiles are difficult or impossible to manage, edit or delete.
If I ignore the recent transparency issues I got mate-terminal finally working by making my old profiles more accurate. Apparently mate-terminal now employs more stricter error checking mechanism and no longer work with undefined profile names ie. --tab-with-profile=Default only works in one profile (the first one.) Your next profile must be named differently (Default2 or for instance "Servers" like in my example below) and it must reflect in the new profile custom command.
example:
By using more precise Profile definitions and custom commands in mate-terminal I can ones again get all my profiles and 100 or so Tabs in good order up and re-connected with a click of a button :)
Gotto love the screen -dRRS main command. This allows you to reboot and return to your previous work with one click. All your terminal tabs will be exactly like you left them before you rebooted including the previous "on screen" command history.
-Sam
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and Ctrl+Shift+Tstill works for me.
In contrast to 14.10 the default profile name is localised in 15.04.