Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:40 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/21/2009 09:13 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Opens an identical xterm. In the original terminal it says Warning: Cannot convert string nil2 to type FontStruct before spawning the new terminal. Search results inconclusive. BTW if you google Warning: Cannot convert string nil2 to type FontStruct + xfterm4 you get precisely one hit, which I believe is known as a googlewhack. This is the terminal I want, the one I used to have: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/terminal This is the terminal I have now: http://www.xfce.org/projects/terminal... Is this still a problem for you? I just emerged x11-terms/terminal (both versions) and both are like the one you want. Neither package has anything to do with xfterm4, so maybe that's an obsolete file. I don't have xfce installed at the moment but a bit a googling shows xfterm4 is a launcher script for the panel that opens a terminal (not necessarily Terminal, depending on what you've configured). Maybe you can look at it and see what it's trying to do.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal[FIXED - almost]
root:566 ~ emerge -pv x11-terms/terminal These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] dev-util/xfce4-dev-tools-4.6.0 61 kB [ebuild R ] x11-terms/terminal-0.4.0 USE=dbus -debug -doc (-nls%) Ok, that restored my terminal. Now I have to keep xfce from opening the old one automatically every time I startx. Thanks mw
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal
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[gentoo-user] Re: upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal
On 09/21/2009 09:13 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Opens an identical xterm. In the original terminal it says Warning: Cannot convert string nil2 to type FontStruct before spawning the new terminal. Search results inconclusive. BTW if you google Warning: Cannot convert string nil2 to type FontStruct + xfterm4 you get precisely one hit, which I believe is known as a googlewhack. This is the terminal I want, the one I used to have: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/terminal This is the terminal I have now: http://www.xfce.org/projects/terminal... Is this still a problem for you? I just emerged x11-terms/terminal (both versions) and both are like the one you want. Neither package has anything to do with xfterm4, so maybe that's an obsolete file.
[gentoo-user] Re: upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal
On 09/21/2009 04:16 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, Before I did -uvDN world a couple of days ago the terminal that came with xfce4 was quite nice, configurable, with tabs. Now the terminal app really sucks. I've looked in ~/.config/xfce4 for something to tweak but must have missed it. Settings-Preferred Applications-Utilities leads to a dialogue window where a Terminal Emulator may be chosen, but the only one that works is the default X Terminal. If you click on Select Application you are led to /usr/bin. I tried xfterm4 but when I clicked on terminal in the menu nothing happened. I see under ~/.local/share/xfce4/helpers there is an xterm config file with the line: X-XFCE-Commands=/usr/bin/xterm. Is there something else I can point it too or do I need to emerge something else to improve the terminal in Xfce-4.6.1? I would try running 'xfterm4' from a command prompt (in the sucky xterm window, of course ;o) and look for error messages. That's always the first thing I try when clicking on an icon doesn't work.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal
Opens an identical xterm. In the original terminal it says Warning: Cannot convert string nil2 to type FontStruct before spawning the new terminal. Search results inconclusive. BTW if you google Warning: Cannot convert string nil2 to type FontStruct + xfterm4 you get precisely one hit, which I believe is known as a googlewhack. This is the terminal I want, the one I used to have: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/terminal This is the terminal I have now: http://www.xfce.org/projects/terminal mw On 9/21/09, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/21/2009 04:16 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, Before I did -uvDN world a couple of days ago the terminal that came with xfce4 was quite nice, configurable, with tabs. Now the terminal app really sucks. I've looked in ~/.config/xfce4 for something to tweak but must have missed it. Settings-Preferred Applications-Utilities leads to a dialogue window where a Terminal Emulator may be chosen, but the only one that works is the default X Terminal. If you click on Select Application you are led to /usr/bin. I tried xfterm4 but when I clicked on terminal in the menu nothing happened. I see under ~/.local/share/xfce4/helpers there is an xterm config file with the line: X-XFCE-Commands=/usr/bin/xterm. Is there something else I can point it too or do I need to emerge something else to improve the terminal in Xfce-4.6.1? I would try running 'xfterm4' from a command prompt (in the sucky xterm window, of course ;o) and look for error messages. That's always the first thing I try when clicking on an icon doesn't work.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal
On 09/21/2009 04:16 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Before I did 'emerge -uvDN world' a couple of days ago the terminal that came with xfce4 was quite configurable with tabs. Now the terminal app really sucks. Yet another problem when people do 'emerge ... world' (groan, not at you). My own practice is to do 'emerge -Dup world' after 'eix-sync', then choose which apps to actually emerge individually; I keep a careful record of everything I installed have updated. 090921 Maxim Wexler wrote: This is the terminal I want, the one I used to have: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/terminal This is the terminal I have now: http://www.xfce.org/projects/terminal The link on the 2nd site to 'homepage' sends you to the 1st site. I don't use the Xfce desktop, but I do use 'Terminal', ie 'x11-terms/terminal-0.4.0', which has tabs looks like the 1st site. I notice there's a new dependency, if I were to remerge it : root:566 ~ emerge -pv x11-terms/terminal These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] dev-util/xfce4-dev-tools-4.6.0 61 kB [ebuild R ] x11-terms/terminal-0.4.0 USE=dbus -debug -doc (-nls%) You could try doing that emerge see if it helps at all; you could also try running 'terminal' from the CLI see what happens. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
