Since I have upgraded my Laptop from Ubuntu 24.10 to 25.04, the shortcut for opening the terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) doesn't work anymore. I didn't change anything since the upgrade and the shortcut was usable before doing the upgrade. Do you know how to fix this?
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Can you check the shortcut in Settings -> Keyboard shortcuts -> Launchers -> Launch terminal ?? – Ajay May 20 '25 at 03:34
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@Ajay It does say "Ctrl+Alt+T" there (but I also have the problem). The only other non-disabled Launcher I have there does still work ("Launch help browser" with "Super+F1"). – user643722 May 22 '25 at 10:26
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It seems that the Ubuntu upgrade forgot to install the needed package. I fixed it with this one:
sudo apt install xdg-terminal-exec
Installing ptyxis works because it depends on xdg-terminal-exec which then gets installed along and this fixes the actual problem.
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I found this out whilst experimenting with Fedora 42 which uses GNOME 48.
GNOME-Terminal has now been replaced with a new application called ptyxis
To set the shortcut go to Settings ⇒ Keyboard ⇒ Keyboard Shortcuts ⇒ View and Customise Shortcuts which will open a new window, Navigate to the bottom and select Custom Shortcuts ⇒ Add Shortcut give it a name (Terminal) enter ptyxis in the Command field click Set Shortcut (you'll notice that Add is now available) click after which the shortcut is saved.
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I had this problem too, I fixed it by adding a new shortcut which calls the terminal.
go to Settings -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> View and Customize Shortcuts -> Custom Shortcuts. Then add a new shortcut, you can name it whatever you want, but on the "Command" text box write "gnome-terminal" and and finally add the required shortcut.
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I was at first thrown by the fact that there was already a keyboard shortcut for Ctrl+Alt+T to open a terminal (just not working). Made a new custom shortcut to replace the existing (as described in this solution). Worked! – svantej Jul 17 '25 at 13:17
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This started happening to me after upgrading to 25.04 as well. Based on one of the other comments about GNOME 48 and ptyxis (and this), I tried installing the ptyxis package:
sudo apt install ptyxis
That restored the Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut without me having to create a custom one.
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You can choose it as default terminal emulator in gnome so that the default keyboard shortcut will work as expected.
To do so type this command in the terminal:
sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator
and choose ptyxis
voila !
– Borg Aug 31 '25 at 15:18