On Thu, 2020-05-21 at 15:52 -0400, Randy MacLeod wrote: > On 2020-05-21 2:41 p.m., Joe Slater wrote: > > If a terminal fails to spawn() we should continue looking. > > gnome-terminal, in particular can be present but not start. > > Do you mean that it doesn't start on the first try but that > it may / usually does start on subsequent tries? > > Since the user has set the preferred terminal, > this change could confuse them and therefore seems wrong. > If we know of flaky terminal implementations, why not look > for specific versions, issue a warning and either retry > or tell the user to try again? In a few years, we can discard > the code when the flaky terminal version is no longer used. > > Is there a bug open with gnome-terminal to track this? > What distro/gnome-terminal do you see this problem in?
I suspect the issue is more like gnome-terminal is present as a binary but no X desktop is running... Cheers, Richard
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