On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 03:59:48PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > >On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 02:40:34PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > >>gnome-terminal: From an xfce desktop, I get > >> > >>Error constructing proxy for > >>org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: > >>Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: > >>GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: > >>Process org.gnome.Terminal exited with status 8 > > >This reply is being typed in gnome-terminal :) I opened it from the > >menu (in an xfce desktop). No issues here. > > I'll try to see what the problem is. Do you get any output if you just type > gnome-terminal from another terminal's command line? > No, all that happens is that the gnome terminal opens.
> I do note that in the System menu, I have: > > Konsole (from kde4) > Konsole (from kf5) > LxTerminal > Terminal > XFCE Terminal > > I then went into gnome-terminal.desktop and manually changed to: > > Name=Gnome Terminal > > We probably ought to do that in the book. If we were to do that, we would have to change other things - gnome likes to hide program names. In my menus I can see the following, and perhaps I have overlooked others : Accessories Archive Manager file-roller Calculator gnome-calculator Character Map gucharmap Files nautilus Network Tools gnome-nettool Passwords and Keys seahorse Screenshot gnome-screenshot Graphics Document Viewer evince Image Viewer eog Internet Web epiphany System Disk Usage Analyzer baobab Network Tools gnome-nettool (bis) System Monitor gnome-system-monitor > > When I try the gnome terminal from the xfce system menu, I get nothing. I > can't find any messages about it either. > Have you tried strace ? > If I run, gnome-terminal --help, that works, so there is probably some > configuration issue on my end. > > >>======== > >>network-manager-applet: comes up but doesn't do anything. I've been testing > >>wicd and I may not have network manager set up properly. > >> > >I built it, but AFAICS there is no program, only an xdg autostart > >file. > > It should install nm-connection-editor. That's what I tested. > My mistake, I overlooked that. I can attempt to add an ethernet connection, but all the field descriptions for setting it up are greyed out as if it did not get added. ĸen -- Il Porcupino Nil Sodomy Est! (if you will excuse my latatian) aka "The hedgehog song" -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
