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When I need to open a terminal I press Ctrl+Alt+T to save time. Most of the time absolutely nothing happens, I try to press same combination again, and still nothing happens. After like 5-8 tries terminal window finally appears. Sometimes terminal opens on a first try.

This is a very annoying situation.

I also noted that open rate increases when I click on random spot on my desktop when all windows are hidden.

Also, when terminal finally is open, next Ctrl+Alt+T combinations open new terminal window immediately.

There are no loadings when combination does not work, which means terminal will not appear even if I wait.

Ubuntu 12.10

Current computer: ASUS P5K-E/Wifi-AP MB, CPU Q6600 Quad Core @ 2.4ghz, GFX GTX560Ti, DDR2 RAM @ 800mhz 4gb

What am I doing wrong? Maybe there is some "focus" in shortkeys, global shortkeys, etc?

Sooraj Soman
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Maxim R
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It may actually be working the first time, and is just taking a long time to appear. Try first opening System Monitor from the dash, and watching what happens when you hit Ctrl - Alt - T.

You can watch for CPU/memory spikes or for the process name (gnome-terminal, bash) to show up in the list. If that happens right away, then you know it's not a keyboard problem.

You may also be able to use 'xev' to debug whether the keys are being sent correctly.

My guess is that there is something in your .bash startup scripts that is doing a network lookup or something else slow, which is delaying the terminal's appearance.

Tshilidzi Mudau
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ImaginaryRobots
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Seems to happen if the gnome-keyring-daemon is ill-configured or there are two instances of it. Try verifying that the daemon is indeed running, and that the output of $ ps aux | grep keyring is somewhat similar to this:

user     2775 … /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login
user     4501 … /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --foreground --components=secrets
user     8808 … grep --color=auto -i keyring

If there are e.g. two processes started with the --daemonize --login arguments, you may have encountered a bug, one symptom being what you describe.

Jonas G. Drange
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this going to sound silly but you actually have to press CTRL + ALT first and hold them and then press T at least a second holding both and then the third.

Tshilidzi Mudau
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Ike
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