On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:40 PM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/21/2009 09:13 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> >> Opens an identical xterm. In the original terminal it says >> >> Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct >> >> before spawning the new terminal. >> >> Search results inconclusive. BTW if you google "Warning: Cannot >> convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct" + xfterm4 you get precisely >> one hit, which I believe is known as a "googlewhack". >> >> This is the terminal I want, the one I used to have: >> >> http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/terminal >> >> This is the terminal I have now: >> >> http://www.xfce.org/projects/terminal... > > Is this still a problem for you? I just emerged x11-terms/terminal > (both versions) and both are like the one you want. Neither package > has anything to do with xfterm4, so maybe that's an obsolete file.
I don't have xfce installed at the moment but a bit a googling shows xfterm4 is a launcher script for the panel that opens a terminal (not necessarily Terminal, depending on what you've configured). Maybe you can look at it and see what it's trying to do.
