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  <title>Opening and Closing Terminals</title>
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      <title>To open a new terminal window:</title>
      <p>
                  Choose <guiseq><gui style="guimenu">File</gui><gui style="guimenuitem">Open Terminal</gui></guiseq>.  </p>
      <p>
                  The new terminal inherits the application settings and default shell from the parent terminal.  </p>
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      <title>To close a terminal window:</title>
      <p>
                  Choose <guiseq><gui style="guimenu">File</gui><gui style="guimenuitem">Close Window</gui></guiseq>.  </p>
      <p>
                  This action closes the terminal and any subprocesses that you opened from the terminal. If you close the last terminal window, the <app>MATE Terminal</app> application exits.  </p>
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      <title>To add a new tabbed terminal to a window:</title>
      <p>
                  Choose <guiseq><gui style="guimenu">File</gui><gui style="guisubmenu">Open Tab</gui><gui style="guimenuitem">Default</gui></guiseq> or just <guiseq><gui style="guimenu">File</gui><gui style="guimenuitem">Open Tab</gui></guiseq> if there is no submenu.  </p>
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    <item>
      <title>To display a tabbed terminal:</title>
      <p>
                  Click on the tab of the tabbed terminal that you want to display, or select a tab title from the <gui style="guimenu">Tabs</gui> menu.
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      <p>
                  Alternatively, choose <guiseq><gui style="guimenu">Tabs</gui><gui style="guimenuitem">Next Tab</gui></guiseq> or <guiseq><gui style="guimenu">Tabs</gui><gui style="guimenuitem">Previous Tab</gui></guiseq> to navigate between tabs.
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      <title>To close a tabbed terminal:</title>
      <p>
                   
                      
                        
                          Display the tabbed terminal that you want to close. 
                        
                      
                      
                        
                          Choose <guiseq><gui style="guimenu">File</gui><gui style="guimenuitem">Close Tab</gui></guiseq>.  
                      
                   
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