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!
Jim Lewis