> The problem is that I can't get a terminal open in the GUI. Alt-F2 does > nothing. I can get to the command line with Ctrl-Alt-F1, but when I > give it the command 'gnome-panel &' it just announces "Cannot open > display." Of course it can't, 'cause I'm not in the GUI. > > I need to get a terminal open in the GUI, but Alt-F2 doesn't work. The > keyboard and mouse are otherwise working fine. I'm just staring at a > completely blank screen. I don't like icons on my screen, so I turned > off the desktop visibility a long time ago. Normally when I boot up I > get a blank screen with the one Gnome panel that has all my stuff on it. > > It's troubling that Alt-F2 isn't working, because that may be > symptomatic of a deeper problem than just a missing panel. I mean, > suppose I do finally get a GUI terminal window open and try to launch > an app from the command line. What if it won't launch? But I'm > borrowing trouble here. First I need to get a GUI terminal up and then > I can figure out what is going on. > > Does anyone know any other secret way to get a terminal window open > besides Alt-F2?
have you tried: gnome-terminal -display :0 or even just: xterm -display :0 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
