Coming from MacOS I was a long time user of iTerm2. It just worked like I expected which meant that switching to ElementaryOS presented a few issues.

First, changing between tabs in the terminal was no longer my expected Control + ]. With some guessing the only thing I could make happen was using the CTRL key in combination with a number to select the tab with the matching number.

So you don’t have that same issue, here are the defualt keyboard commands for Pantheon Terminal in ElementaryOS.

Ctrl + D - closes the active tab

Ctrl + Shift + W - closes tab

Ctrl + Shift + T - opens a new tab

Ctrl + Shift + N - open a new window

Ctrl + Shift + F - open a search field

Ctrl + Shift + A - select all text

Ctrl + Shift + Right Arrow - next tab

Ctrl + Shift + Left Arrow - previous tab

Alt + <1-9> - jumps to the tab of the corresponding number

Ctrl + Plus - increases the font size

Ctrl + Minus - decreases the font size

Now to see if I install zsh instead of bash, which is what I had on MacOS. Guess I’ll have to dig in and see since previously I simply trusted a friend and made the change.