Yes, I just tried to install a different terminal emulator and it works perfectly. Thank you very much for the assistance!
Peter mandag den 27. april 2020 kl. 16.22.04 UTC+2 skrev Tycho Andersen: > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 07:12:55AM -0700, Peter Severin Rasmussen wrote: > > echo $DISPLAY yields :1 in these terminals. New terminals started > directly > > in Ubuntu window manager shows $DISPLAY to be :0. > > > > But I also made a mistake. I *can* actually spawn apps like firefox, > > thunderbird and other applications in Qtile, I must just have messed up > > earlier. The terminals still show up in the original Ubuntu window > manager > > though, which I don't understand how is even possible. > > > > I also forgot to mention that I changed the mod+enter to spawn > > "x-terminal-emulator" instead of "xterm" since I am not using xterm. So > > perhaps these terminals are the only culprit. > > > > Get this: If from one of the terminals spawned from Qtile (that are now > > residing in Ubuntu window manager) I start another program like > > thunderbird, it actually starts in Qtile. What sorcery is this? > > > > So to sum up: x-terminal-emulator seems to be the only application that > > spawns outside of Qtile. > > My guess is that it's spawning gnome-terminal, which uses some IPC to > figure out the $DISPLAY to use, while everyone else just looks at > $DISPLAY. If you install and use xterm (or urxvt or something) it'll > probably work. > > Tycho > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qtile-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qtile-dev/a25fbcba-51b5-4b86-9b4b-3b3ec40d3654%40googlegroups.com.
