Hi,

Whenever I installed opensuse, I could open the terminal where ever I wanted by a right-click. But in this last installation I am surprised to see that application is missing...

Please guide me how to have it back!!!!

Hi hanamilani,

Did you install the same version of openSUSE? Did you install the same packages like desktop environment as you always do?

yes exactly. I even now tried to install nautilus-open-terminal package but it didn't help either!!!!

So what version of openSUSE are you using now and what version of openSUSE were you using when you were able to get a terminal via right-click?

Are you using GNOME or KDE, or something else for your desktop environment?

openSUSE 12.1 is the first version of openSUSE to ship with GNOME 3. GNOME 3 is very different from GNOME 2 and one of the differences is that you can't get a terminal by right-clicking on the Desktop. Assuming you are using openSUSE 12.1 with GNOME, that may account for the behaviour you're seeing.

Hi,

I'm using gnome on opensuse 11.4 and I have always used opensuse 11.4
if what you say about genome 3 is happening to me then how I can have the terminal?

You can't always have used openSUSE 11.4.

If you're using openSUSE 11.4 then unless you installed GNOME 3 then you're not using GNOME 3 because openSUSE 11.4 shipped with GNOME 2.

Post the output of these commands

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@ hanamilani,

arizonagroovejet is right openSuSE 11.4 ships with gnome 2.x not 3. Run the commands he mentioned as that will give us more information about the version you are running on and about terminal package.

Sorry, I meant I have used opensuse since I started working with opensuse

hana@linux-n01q:~> cat /etc/SuSE-release
openSUSE 11.4 (i586)
VERSION = 11.4
CODENAME = Celadon

hana@linux-n01q:~> rpm -qi gnome-terminal
Name : gnome-terminal Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 2.32.1 Vendor: openSUSE
Release : 6.1 Build Date: Sat 19 Feb 2011 10:55:42 AM IRST
Install Date: Thu 26 Jan 2012 08:54:59 AM IRST Build Host: build21
Group : System/X11/Terminals Source RPM: gnome-terminal-2.32.1-6.1.src.rpm
Size : 4803815 License: GPLv3+ ; LGPLv2.1+
Signature : RSA/8, Sat 19 Feb 2011 10:56:11 AM IRST, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284
Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org
URL : http://www.gnome.org
Summary : GNOME Terminal
Description :
This package provides the GNOME terminal emulator application.
Distribution: openSUSE 11.4

When you right click on the Desktop do you get a menu that doesn't have an option for launching a terminal, or do you not get a menu at all?

Is nautilus running?

hana@linux-n01q:~> ps U $USER | grep -i nautilus
4852 ? Sl 0:03 nautilus
19831 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep -i nautilus

When you right click on the Desktop do you get a menu that doesn't have an option for launching a terminal, or do you not get a menu at all? Or to put it another way; What happens when you right click on the Desktop?

when I right click the following options are seen:
create folder
create document
organize desktop by name
keep aligned
paste
change desktop background

hana@linux-n01q:~> ps U $USER | grep -i nautilus
4852 ? Sl 0:03 nautilus
19831 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep -i nautilus

Run this command

If it says the package isn't installed

Log out, log in again.

I think it has already been installed:

hana@linux-n01q:~> rpm -qi nautilus-open-terminal
Name : nautilus-open-terminal Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 0.19 Vendor: obs://build.opensuse.org/GNOME
Release : 1.1 Build Date: Mon 11 Apr 2011 03:34:41 PM IRDT
Install Date: Sun 29 Jan 2012 07:57:59 PM IRST Build Host: build25
Group : System/GUI/GNOME Source RPM: nautilus-open-terminal-0.19-1.1.src.rpm
Size : 113973 License: GPLv2+
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Mon 11 Apr 2011 03:34:56 PM IRDT, Key ID 65a86f31629ff0c2
URL : http://manny.cluecoder.org/packages/...open-terminal/
Summary : Nautilus Extension to Open Terminal in Folders
Description :
This is a nautilus extension that allows you to open a terminal in
arbitrary folders.
Distribution: GNOME:STABLE:3.0 / openSUSE_11.4

If it wasn't already installed you'd get a message saying it wasn't installed. Also it appears to have been installed very recently
unless your system clock is wrong. So recent is that date that from the timezone I'm in, Sun 29 Jan 2012 07:57:59 PM is still several hours in the future.


It appears that is the nautilus-open-terminal package for use with GNOME 3. You have gnome-terminal from GNOME 2 which implies you're using GNOME 2 not GNOME 3. So where did you get that nautilus-open-terminal package from?

What repos do you have set up?