> On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 15:03 -1000, Jim Lewis wrote:
>
>> Can you point me to where one of these other terminals is? The only
>> reason I can still use one or make more is because there were some
>> already opened before I ran the update.
>
> Often, one can type "term" in a command line, and get a basic term,
> instead of gnome-term, or mate-term, or the command name for some other
> terminal type. I don't seem to be able to do that at the moment, but I
> have in the past. Perhaps my MATE install on Fedora 20 didn't bother
> installing extra ones. Might be worth doing so, for future problem
> solving.
>
>
Hi Tim,
Well, I'm still trying to figure out how I can run a command to get a
command line from the command line when I don't have a command line.
Yes, I spent all night coming up with that :).
Anyway, you gave me an idea when you mentioned "term". I had been
fussing with the panel trying to create my own Mate terminal. In
Properties, putting exactly what is in the real one resulted in the same
behavior, a box opening on the bottom panel for about 6 seconds saying
"Starting Mate...". But then no terminal. I then tried calling a script
which exported DISPLAY, and then calling mate-terminal. No good (an
strace showed that this was never going to work). I should probably add
that output to my bug.
I had already installed xterm (starting with Fedora 21 you have to yum
install everything now). I changed it to xterm, fully expecting it to
fail just like these others. No, it didn't! I now have an xterm on the
panel, and can make others. I might actually put this on all my systems
(yeah, I really like command lines). So, a gold star for you!
I should have thought about running strace on mate-terminal sooner. I
searched the net on this error message:
gabi1 ~ $ mate-terminal &
[1] 22600
gabi1 ~ $ Failed to forward arguments:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: Type of message, '
type '(ayayayayay)'
[1]+ Exit 1 mate-terminal
and found quite a few hits. Seems a logout/login will fix it (or a
reboot of course).
I had opened Bug 1196472 for this but that turned out to be an
incredible waste of time. It has been closed NOTABUG.
Jim Lewis