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This happens now and then and after a restart it works. No clue as to what causes this. When this happened earlier I would search for Terminal in Dash and launch. But today, even that does not work.

I have tried the solutions posted in the following posts without any luck.

I am going to restart lightdm first to see if that helps and if not I will restart my laptop.

I look forward to your suggestions on what else I could try for this is sure to recur.

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I have also faced that type of problem earlier and initially used to restart.

But now any type of such problem, then by using following command:

kill -9 -1

This will kill processes and return to login screen, then after login all works well & successfully.

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It's a confirmed bug. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1292113

I've had the same thing happening. Sometimes, after a minute or two of doing something else, a screen full of terminals I attempted to open with a series of frustrated ctrl+alt+ts blows up in my workspace.

If you go to launchpad, and confirm that it also affects you, it raises the priority of the bug, meaning it would be more likely to be fixed sooner.

blanket_cat
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I had the same issue and tried to Reset All(keyboard shortcuts) and it worked charm.

process:

Go to Settings->Devices->Keyboard Shortcuts-> Reset All

it worked like charm

Maulik Pipaliya Joyy
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If (like me) you use gnome-session-fallback, executing:

pkill gnome-panel

should resolve this.

ghost_1989
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I had this problem - Alt+Ctrl+T stopped working - and what solved it to me was this answer:

https://askubuntu.com/a/67372

after doing kill -9 -1 as suggested in Pandya's answer, I noticed an error about monitor configuration.

And so I reached the above answer that instructs to delete /home/__username__/.config/monitors.xml

Before this I couldn't switch language as well.

guy mograbi
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Instead of using Ctrl + Alt + T as the shortcut, you can redefine Alt + T as the shortcut in the Settings > Keyboard > Launchers settings to replace the old Launch setting for Launch terminal (this is not to set up a new customized short key). It seems a bug and may also because there is a conflict. This works for me at least.

Xiaodong Qi
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Go Settings->Keyboard->Custom Shortcuts

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Ruslan Gerasimov
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