Thanks Eris! Your script did the trick :) In fact it seems that's exactly what's happening because I found out that QuickSilver is 'acting normal' when I run gnome-terminal from within Apple's Terminal.
I also tried the steps suggested by Sesquipedalian with no luck - Spotlight shows up normally, while Quicksilver doesn't. Concerning the terminals part of the discussion, I use gnome-terminal for only one reason: it seems to be the only terminal (at least the only one I've tried) that can show me both the cursor line and the cursor column in vim :p Thank you for suggesting Dterm and iterm. I wanted to try the latter but macports gives me a build error :( But I guess I'll find them both elsewhere on the net. On Mar 23, 10:11 pm, Eris <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? To unsubscribe from this group, send email to blacktree-quicksilver+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
