On 09/11/14 05:10, Jape Person wrote:
On 09/11/2014 02:35 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
In particular, I’m interested in getting Gnome under Jessie to use a
terminal program that isn’t gnome-terminal.
Anybody know how to do that?
TLDNR: Gnome terminal, apparently, is broken if you use the “C”
locale. It wants to see a UTF8 locale, and refuses to work with
anything less! See Debian bug#746415 for details. Programs like
lxterminal and simple xterm work fine, so I’d like to configure Gnome
to use one of them instead of the broken gnome-terminal. But I
haven’t discovered the right magical incantation to do that yet.
Help? Anybody?
Rick
I'm sorry that I'm not likely to be helpful. I haven't used Gnome in a
long time, and I know it has changed a lot.
I'm curious, though. How do you launch the terminal window -- from the
menu system / from a desktop or panel shortcut of some kind? What
happens when you use a launcher and specify that it launch xterm, as
in /usr/bin/xterm?
Surely Gnome doesn't subsume all terminal executables and cause them
to launch the Gnome terminal?
I hope you find a solution.
Jape
I click on the "activites" in the upper left of the basic Gnome screen.
That gives me a list of "favorites" on the left. The last "favorite" is
a tic-tac-toe board that, when clicked, gives a list of all the
"approved" Gnome apps. One of those is "terminal" another is "root
terminal". Those each start the actual program
"/usr/bin/gnome-terminal" each with a different perl wrapper.
"/usr/bin/gnome-terminal" is the one with the problem.
If I open the file browser and brows to "/usr/bin" I can find
"lxterminal" (after I installed it) and "xterm" (which comes standard
and doesn't need to be installed.) If I double-click on one of them, I
get a terminal window with a shell.
When I type "gnome-terminal" into the shell on lxterminal, I get the
error messages given in the bug report.
That's where I stand now.
Enjoy!
Rick
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