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geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

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[SOLVED] Keyboard shortcut for moving between tabs in LXTerminals

Hi all,

I was wondering if I could assign some keyboard shortcut to move between the
open tabs of LXTerminal..

Or if there are any, I would be glad to know them.

Thanks a lot!

Last edited by geo909 (2009-07-02 02:54:29)

the_isz

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Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 280

Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard shortcut for moving between tabs in LXTerminals

Hi,

not really an answer to your question, but I suggest you take a look at screen, which will relieve you of all tabbed-terminaling problems you have encountered or ever will encounter. Then, uninstall
lxterminal and install rxvt-unicode, as it has great unicode support and nice transparency and these are all you need from a terminal emulator once you know how to use screen

Please, don't think, just try it!

Kind regards

geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 309

Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard shortcut for moving between tabs in LXTerminals

Hey there,

thanks for the suggestion! It's funny because I was trying screen these days, but i did have a problem with it:
Scrolling (with the mouse wheel) wouldn't work anymore.. And I really use that, especially when I read man pages
and stuff..
When I use screen and try to use the mouse wheel, there is just a blink of the terminal screen and no scrolling at all..

Last edited by geo909 (2009-06-30 13:04:03)

firecat53

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard shortcut for moving between tabs in LXTerminals

Alt-1, Alt-2, etc will move between tabs in lxterminal, firefox and many other progs

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geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 309

Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard shortcut for moving between tabs in LXTerminals

Thanks! That worked!

the_isz

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Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 280

Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard shortcut for moving between tabs in LXTerminals

Hey there,

thanks for the suggestion! It's funny because I was trying screen these days, but i did have a problem with it:
Scrolling (with the mouse wheel) wouldn't work anymore.. And I really use that, especially when I read man pages
and stuff..
When I use screen and try to use the mouse wheel, there is just a blink of the terminal screen and no scrolling at all..

That's because screen itself allows you to scroll! Try C-x [ to get into the copy mode and then you should be able to scroll with screen's own
features. This has the great advantage that you'll never have to get used to another kind of scrolling, it is the same for a graphical and a
non-graphical environment.

geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 309

Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard shortcut for moving between tabs in LXTerminals

That's because screen itself allows you to scroll! Try C-x [ to get into the copy mode and then you should be able to scroll with screen's own
features. This has the great advantage that you'll never have to get used to another kind of scrolling, it is the same for a graphical and a
non-graphical environment.

Thanks for that! Very good to know! I will give screen another try now, apart from the scrolling issue that I had I liked it a lot..