Re: off topic; HELP! I cannot create a terminal window in gnome.

2008-05-26 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 25 May 2008 22:45:36 -0400 Hubert Figuiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 20:26 -0600, Ralph Boland wrote: Sorry for not being a development issue unless you consider modifying gnome so those stupid enough to do what I have done can't do it anymore. since

Re: off topic; HELP! I cannot create a terminal window in gnome.

2008-05-26 Thread Brian Cameron
Ralph: If you have a configuration problem that affects one user and not other users, the problem is likely a configuration option stored in your $HOME/.gconf directory. Note that gnome-terminal configuration settings are in the directory $HOME/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal If you make sure that

off topic; HELP! I cannot create a terminal window in gnome.

2008-05-25 Thread Ralph Boland
Sorry for not being a development issue unless you consider modifying gnome so those stupid enough to do what I have done can't do it anymore. What I did was experiment with terminal window profiles to learn how useful they were. I somehow set up my only terminal window profile to close

Re: off topic; HELP! I cannot create a terminal window in gnome.

2008-05-25 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 20:26 -0600, Ralph Boland wrote: Sorry for not being a development issue unless you consider modifying gnome so those stupid enough to do what I have done can't do it anymore. since you know it is off-topic why do you post it? Hub

Re: off topic; HELP! I cannot create a terminal window in gnome.

2008-05-25 Thread Zoran Rilak
Hi Ralph, I assume the answer to your question might be of some use to less experienced GNOME users / new developers as well, so I am CCing it to the list. Most likely you have set the custom command to something that returns immediately and forgot to set the option to keep the terminal