Linux – Right-clicking in the terminal opens new window… stop this

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When in a terminal window, right-clicking often opens a new terminal rather than displaying the menu. (I'm not sure if this is because of where I click, or if I'm hitting another button, or something else — but it happens often, maybe 5 times a day.)

Is there a way to disable this behavior?

(I'm not sure what causes this, exactly… Metacity? GNOME? I don't think it's the shell itself.)

Best Answer

In gnome-terminal, if you right-click and hold, you'll see a context menu. The first item is Open Terminal. It is likely that you're moving the mouse a little and releasing the button thus selecting that option.

Edit:

You can edit the file at /usr/share/gnome-terminal/terminal.xml and rearrange the order of the items in the <popup name="Popup" action="Popup"> section. You could put Copy and Paste at the top swapping positions with Open Window and Open Tab.

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Take a look at your /etc/bashrc (or equivalent). Modern Linux distributions have this already in place - you just may have to enable it.

For instance, on openSuSE, it's handled by a bash function:

ppwd () 
{ 
    local _t="$1" _w _x _u="$USER" _h="$HOST";
    test -n "$_t" || return;
    test "${_t#tty}" = $_t && _t=pts/$_t;
    test -O /dev/$_t || return;
    _w="$(dirs +0)";
    _x=$((${#_w}-18));
    test ${#_w} -le 18 || _w="...${_w#$(printf "%.*s" $_x "$_w")}";
    printf "\e]2;%s@%s:%s\007\e]1;%s\007" "$_u" "$_h" "$_w" "$_h" > /dev/$_t
}

and my PS1 is:

$(ppwd \l)\u@\h:\w>

This causes my xterm & gnome-terminal title to be set to user@host:/smartpath every time the prompt is displayed.

If you're read this far, you should know that the easy way to set the title one time is:

echo -e '\e]2;Title Text\007\e]1;\007'

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