On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 11:46, Paul Howarth wrote: > >>> > >>> Or right-click on the background and select "Open Terminal" from the > >>> pop-up menu. When it comes up, enter "su -" at the shell prompt and > >>> give it root's password. Voila! > >> > >> > >> > >> I wouldn't get too attached to this method of opening a terminal if I > >> was you: > >> > >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-July/msg00302.html > >> > >> Paul. > >> > > Ok, how do *I* register my hopes that this won't go away? > > If you're a "power user", you'll be able to get it back by adding some > sort of extension (I think someone's packaging it for Extras). Otherwise > you'll need to get on the gnome mailing lists and complain about it > there, but I suspect that the developers will not agree with you. The replacement: being able to open a terminal in the visited directory makes much more sense. I've never quite understood the concept of a GUI interface that lets you view files without really knowing where they are but won't let you issue commands referencing them after you can see them. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
