On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 02:23:20PM +0000, Unman wrote: > > I'm just puzzled that this doesnt work: > > echo gnome-terminal |/usr/lib/qubes/qfile-daemon-dvm qubes.VMShell dom0 > > DEFAULT red > This comes up quite often - perhaps it should be in the FAQ. probably, though best with a satisfying answer :)
> I cant do better than quote my last reply: > > This is because gnome-terminal is a stub that calls > gnome-terminal-server to open a new window and then exits. Because the > command you have called exits, the dispVM closes. It's expected > behaviour. ah. (some sort of expected behaviour ;) > There was a solution proposed in issues - #2581 if you are > interested, but it's ugly (proposer's words) and has significant security > risks. I wouldn't touch it, but then I tend not to sue gnome-terminal > anyway. > > And, as Marek pointed out in that thread, this is the reason why the > default config has xterm. hm, xfce4-terminal is a somewhat better terminal, IMHO, but what I really want is one which I can easily configure to support font-size-resizing via keyboard-ctrols (ctrl +- works out of the box in gnome-terminal) and xfce4-terminal doesn't support that :/ For now my workaround is: (using i3) $mod-Shift-Return gives me an xterm in a new disposable VM and then $mod-Return will give me a gnome-terminal in thereā¦ -- cheers, Holger -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20170212151159.GB26296%40layer-acht.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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