# Getting Tilix icon to open new terminal rather than minimise

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/getting-tilix-icon-to-open-new-terminal-rather-than-minimise/46>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [March 13, 2018, 9:15am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/getting-tilix-icon-to-open-new-terminal-rather-than-minimise/46 "2018-03-13T09:15:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![shambam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@shambam](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/shambam)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 9:15am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/getting-tilix-icon-to-open-new-terminal-rather-than-minimise/46/1 "2018-03-13T09:15:57Z")

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Just as the title says, is it possible to change it so when you click on the tilix icon in the taskbar it opens a new terminal session, rather than minimising the one already open? If I can get this working UB might be my new distro.

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 10:00am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/getting-tilix-icon-to-open-new-terminal-rather-than-minimise/46/2 "2018-03-13T10:00:42Z")

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Pressing the CTRL Key when you click the icon will open a new instance of Tilix.

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**Author:** ![shambam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@shambam](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/shambam)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 10:15am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/getting-tilix-icon-to-open-new-terminal-rather-than-minimise/46/3 "2018-03-13T10:15:46Z")

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Ah cool, thanks. It would be great if icons on the dock could have an option to either minimise or open a new instance. In the case of terminals it makes a lot of sense that one would want new windows.

I’ve spent 17 years clicking to open a new window, and old habits die hard.

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**Author:** ![cleary](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/cleary/32/20_2.png) [@cleary](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/cleary)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 4:10am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/getting-tilix-icon-to-open-new-terminal-rather-than-minimise/46/4 "2018-03-14T04:10:58Z")

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tilix also has a semi-hidden quake terminal show/hide feature - I’m not sure what the shortcut is by default (I changed mine), but I very quickly got used to using that mode of terminal access after a similar period of traditional terminal usage.  
Maybe that could be worth investigating too?

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**Author:** ![shambam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@shambam](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/shambam)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 7:41am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/getting-tilix-icon-to-open-new-terminal-rather-than-minimise/46/5 "2018-03-14T07:41:22Z")

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@cleary I’m not sure what a quake terminal is, but I’ll do some googling on that. Thanks!

One thing I really like about cinnamon are the hot-corners. My bottom right is set to open a new terminal so just flashing the mouse pointer there does the job nicely.

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 12:25pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/getting-tilix-icon-to-open-new-terminal-rather-than-minimise/46/6 "2018-03-14T12:25:02Z")

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Just activate the hot-corners applet via budgie-settings and you can define a custom command to open tilix

F12 or ALT+Q are the keyboard shortcuts in 18.04 to open quake mode.

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**Author:** ![cleary](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/cleary/32/20_2.png) [@cleary](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/cleary)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 11:11pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/getting-tilix-icon-to-open-new-terminal-rather-than-minimise/46/7 "2018-03-14T23:11:27Z")

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> [@fossfreedom](#):
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> ALT+Q

heh, apparently I’ve abused my contribution opportunity to get my own shortcut in 😛

speaking of which, I still need to debug that reset thing (I haven’t forgotten!)

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**Author:** ![shambam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@shambam](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/shambam)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 10:02am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/getting-tilix-icon-to-open-new-terminal-rather-than-minimise/46/8 "2018-03-15T10:02:08Z")

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@fossfreedom cool, thanks. I installed brightside but didn’t know hot-corners were there natively.