On 02/27/15 09:03, Jim Lewis wrote:
Since I fully expect to have no terminals when I finally reboot I have opened Bug 1196472 for this issue. They have already begun to look at the problem.
FWIW, at times I've experienced "weird" things after updates. The latest one was segfaults in ibus after an update. Simply logging out and logging back in has always fixed this sort of thing.
Also, I happen to have an F20 VM with multiple desktops installed but not updated in quite some time. I just stated the VM, logged in as a MATE user and updated. I was not able to recreate the problem you're seeing.
Hi Ed,
Thanks for trying that out. I don't expect that many people have seen this problem or else I would have found it during my search. And, there's still a good chance a reboot will solve it. If only I wasn't such a big wuss ...
I have found one more data point: I noticed I could open another terminal from a root session but not a guest session. Turns out the DISPLAY variable needs to be set first. I exported it to ":0.0" and a guest terminal will now come up when I run mate-terminal &.
Jim Lewis