> >> 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! >
I should have thought about running strace on mate-terminal sooner. I searched the net on this error message: gabi1 ~ $ mate-terminal & [1] 22600 gabi1 ~ $ Failed to forward arguments: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: Type of message, ' type '(ayayayayay)' [1]+ Exit 1 mate-terminal and found quite a few hits. Seems a logout/login will fix it (or a reboot of course). I had opened Bug 1196472 for this but that turned out to be an incredible waste of time. It has been closed NOTABUG. Jim Lewis -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
