Some well-meaning person installed Ubuntu on my wife's formerly Windows laptop. She hadn't used it for years before I married her. I haven't used Ubuntu since fifteen or twenty years ago myself, so of course the GUI is completely different. (Actually, I had Kubuntu back then.)
It has auto-login to her admin account but she doesn't know the password. The search function in the GUI cannot locate any *.jpg in /home although I know there are hundreds of them in one folder on the desktop.
So, I want to open a shell window to use find
There are a lot of icons in the launcher/task bar/dock/whatever it's called but none of them are a terminal emulator.
The "software center" shows several terminal emulators installed, but I can't launch any of them, and the "more info" buttons do nothing.
I want to find all of her pictures to put them on a newer machine and retire this one. I can pull the disk and hook it up directly to another laptop (where I have root access) but it would be more pleasant to just type commands. :-)
/home/$USER/Desktopwhere $USER is your username). Have you tried CTRL+ALT+T to open a terminal using the shortcut. – guiverc Aug 11 '19 at 06:09