Keyboard shortcut to activate existing instance of gnome-terminal

Hi all,

I set up a keyboard shortcut in gnome to launch the terminal with a particular size. Whenever I press this key combination a new terminal opens.

How can I get it to instead activate an instance of the terminal if one already exists?

gnome-terminal has a few command line arguments that may be of use, I haven't had time to try them but --active may work. (Have a look at `gnome-terminal --help` in a regular shell session.)

--tab should do it but doesn't.

In Ubuntu, it has a keyboard shortcuts panel. The program is called gnome-keybinding-properties. Try giving that a go. It allows you to assign a keyboard shortcut to a terminal under the "Desktop" part.

Yup, I did that, and I can load a new terminal, but not activate an existing one.

It doesn't matter much. I like both behaviours.