Recently I did a hack on GNOME Terminal, added the Google search support for it.
I think you may like it, so here comes the article.
As a programmer, the first thing after entering my desktop is “Opening Terminal”. I’m using Ubuntu Desktop, so it’s GNOME Terminal.
GNOME Terminal is great, easy to use with tab support. But it doesn’t support a feature: Search the selection text on Google.
So I hacked the terminal to add the support, now it looks like this:
When you done some jobs on terminal, the output message may make you confused, you can select the text and right-click, the menu with “Search On Google” is there!
So…How to get the “GNOME Terminal with Google search”?
Think about Ubuntu Tweak! I’ve already included this PPA to Ubuntu Tweak now!
Open Ubuntu Tweak, go to “Source Center”, enable “Google Terminal with Google search support”, Click “Refresh”. You can get it so easily!
If you are interested in the code, you can visit here: https://code.launchpad.net/~tualatrix/ibentu/gnome-terminal
Let’s do more interesting hacks to make Ubuntu more powerful!
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Awesome, I google stuff from the terminal all the time, many many times a day, this will be perfect!
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I want this on Konsole SO MUCH *—–*
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Hello, nice tweak. But when i tried your code, it will open several chromium tabs for every space i managed to copy in terminal.
1 word is ok, but as soon I copy spaces, it will open several tabs.
Not using ubuntu own terminal, and a bit older terminal too. But it shouldent mather?
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This is gonna make my life so much easier! Thanks man!
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Great idea, thanks! I was using a small personal script to launch firefox + google with the text i wanted to search, but this is better!
salut
So I installed this, and now when I right click on my terminal, I just get a little shadow, and NO context menu at all! Any ideas?
Hi,
I have the same problem as well (on maverick). I get a small little blank rectangle instead of the usual copy/paste/etc.
PS: There is no visible error that I can find.
I’m also a Maverick user and I’m getting nothing but a white box, essentially a vertical rectangular cursor character, where the pop-ups go on a right click.
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An awesome idea! Really appreciate it.
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Any chance of 11.10 support of this? It looks like an awesome tweak!
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