On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:52:11 -0700 Aaron Jorbin <[email protected]> dijo:
> this might be a bit of over the top, but have you tried installing > gnome-do and using that to open a terminal? Tried that, and suggestions from Joe, Heath and Aaron. The problem is not yet resolved, but I have different error messages that may be revealing to someone who knows more about things than I do. First, evidently the syntax for the display suggestions is (e.g.) gnome-terminal --display=:0.0 That is, it needs a double dash in front and no spaces between the = and the argument. Once I gave the commands in that format I stopped getting "unable to parse" error messages. Unfortunately, the commands still didn't work, but at least now I know the correct format. Heath's suggestion needed slight syntax revision also, but after fixing it to: export DISPLAY=:0.0 It worked without error messages. However, it doesn't seem to have solved the problem. That is, right after giving the command I tried "gnome-terminal" and got "Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting." When I did: gnome-terminal --display=:0.0 I got the most interesting error message of all: Failed to get the session bus: dbus-launch failed autolaunch D-BUS session: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed. Falling back to non-factory mode. Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting. I'm hoping someone here can translate that. As for Aaron's suggestion to install gnome-do, I succeeded in installing it, but can't figure out what to do with it. According to the man page "the hotkey to summon the gnome-do interface is <super> +space." Does <super> mean as superuser? Or what? And to those who suggested right-clicking on the root window, bear in mind that there are no windows on the display at all, root or otherwise. It's just a completely blank screen showing my wallpaper. I did try right-clicking and other clickety things, but nada. The mouse and keyboard work, but there is nothing to click on and no windows to type in. I do have another ordinary user that I created a long time ago for emergencies. I haven't tried to log in as him, or as root. I'll do that after I send this. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
