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!
Jim Lewis