Hi there,

On Sat, 14 Mar 2026, Joao Silva via Freedos-user wrote:

To open Terminal on Linux with keyboard is Ctrl + Alt + T

Saying that CTRL+ALT+T opens a terminal on Linux overstates the case,
and I don't think it's helpful to those who may be unamiliar with it.

A Linux box might not even run a GUI, in which case probably all you
will have available is a console - or maybe just SSH access, like the
vast majority of boxes around here which are headless.

*Some* of the GUI/desktop thingies supplied with *some* popular
distributions of Linux may use that key combination to start *some*
kind of a terminal window, for example an 'xterm'.  See for example

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/9ug1vd/is_ctrl_alt_t_the_terminal_shortcut_on_most/

Most of these things allow the user to change the key bindings.  FVWM2
is my usual window manager.  With my personal shortcut keys loaded,
ALT+9 starts an xterm in a new window.  In an emacs window, CTRL+ALT+T
inserts the character '\224' (but ALT+9 still starts a new xterm. :)

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73,
Ged.


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