Here's my best guess and it's probably right because I've run into
this before:

Quicksilver sees Gnome Terminal as a console application since it's
not in a bundle, so instead of calling LaunchServices to launch it
like you expect, it's telling the shell to run it and then waiting for
it to terminate.

If you trust me, here's a wrapper app I threw together with Platypus
that you can invoke with Quicksilver instead of invoking gnome-
terminal directly: <http://is.gd/aUMUW>. If you don't trust me, I'll
be glad to show you the script and let you make your own Platypus
wrapper. :)

The wrapper app will look for gnome-terminal in /sw/bin, /opt/local/
bin and /usr/local/bin by default and launch the first one it finds.
If you need it to look somewhere else, you can edit `Info.plist`—there
is an Environment Variables section that includes TD_COMMAND, TD_PATH
and TD_ARGS. Deleting the TD_PATH variable will cause it to look in
your PATH instead. Hope this helps.

On Mar 23, 9:30 am, doorman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello guys!
>
> I'm a Linux guy who recently switched to Mac. As such, I still have an
> addiction to Linux tools. Concretely, I don't find Apple's Terminal
> suits my needs, so I installed gnome-terminal (yeah, it's a bit of an
> overkill, I know...). The strange thing is, once I open it up,
> Quicksilver just stops working... Well, not really actually. It seems
> that it "waits" until I close all the gnome-terminals I opened after
> which it magically shows up. What's more, if I press the shortcut (cmd-
> space for me) more than once - let's say 5 times, after closing the
> terminal I can see Quicksilver appear-disappear 5 times. Bizarre.
>
> Gnome-terminal is the only app that seems to be blocking Quicksilver.
> If I open up xterm instead, Quicksilver continues to behave properly.
> I looked through all gnome-terminal's shortcuts, and there's not even
> one shortcut involving the space key (let alone the "super" key).
>
> Any ideas?

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