I solved the problem, when I replaced inside of ~/.config/libfm/libfm.conf the line terminal=lxsession-default-terminal %s by terminal=lxterminal %s .
Thank you very much Walter! Your questions did push me to dig much deeper and to solve the problem in the end. Inside of Unity I got the following meessage when starting 'pcmanfm .&' in a terminal: $ pcmanfm .& ** (pcmanfm:14802): WARNING **: Couldn't register with accessibility bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. ** (pcmanfm:14802): WARNING **: terminal lxsession-default-terminal isn't known, consider report it to LibFM developers $ This was the hint needed to solve the issue. What I do not understand: Why did it work in 'lubuntu'? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1678308 Title: lxterminal crashed with SIGSEGV from pcmanfm To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxterminal/+bug/1678308/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs