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Bug 112146 - --tab and --tab-with-profile options do not work
--tab and --tab-with-profile options do not work
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Havoc Pennington
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
: 143664 309678 314564 329275 335321 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-05-03 07:50 UTC by Malcolm Tredinnick
Modified: 2006-04-30 08:22 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.3/2.4


Description Malcolm Tredinnick 2003-05-03 07:50:46 UTC 
The two options in the title both cause a new window to be open, rather
than opening a new tab.
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2003-05-03 15:43:31 UTC 
They open a new tab in the last-opened window *from the same command
line*, they don't magically know which terminal you're running 
from and open a tab in that. If I run "gnome-terminal --tab --tab"
I get a single new window with two tabs which is expected.

There's an open bug suggesting that g-t set some sort of environment 
variable with an ID allowing it to find the terminal it was run 
from and open a tab there, but it isn't currently supposed to 
work that way.
Comment 2 Mariano Suárez-Alvarez 2004-06-04 22:04:32 UTC 
*** Bug 143664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Olav Vitters 2005-07-07 07:37:24 UTC 
*** Bug 309678 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Olav Vitters 2005-11-20 13:17:00 UTC 
*** Bug 314564 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Olav Vitters 2006-01-30 23:27:06 UTC 
*** Bug 329275 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Olav Vitters 2006-04-29 12:08:09 UTC 
*** Bug 335321 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Danielle Madeley 2006-04-30 02:56:43 UTC 
This could be a lot more clearly documented. Additionally, due to the factory design of g-t, being able to open a new tab in the most recently opened window should be quite simple.
Comment 8 Olav Vitters 2006-04-30 08:22:38 UTC 
Davyd: see bug 83203 for a new commandline option (see bug 83203 comment 6) ... and the --help text should be fixed yes.

IIRC --tab and --window are used when the session is saved