Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:11:36 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> To: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome Terminal Message-ID: <20091127171136.GA77845@bsd.remdog.net> In-Reply-To: <200911271042.55655.pieter@degoeje.nl> References: <20091127041141.GA1341@bsd.remdog.net> <200911271042.55655.pieter@degoeje.nl>
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On 2009.11.27 10:42:55 +0000, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > On Friday 27 November 2009 05:11:41 Rem P Roberti wrote: > > There was a time when I ran gnome-terminal from within Fluxbox. On my > > new 7.2 installation I have installed gnome-terminal, but can't get it > > to work. When I try to bring it up from the command line from within > > Fluxbox I get this error message: "Failed to contact the GConf daemon; > > exiting" > > > > As usual, all help much appreciated. > > > > Rem > > You can try adding gnome-settings-daemon to .xinitrc / .xsession. It should > start the gconf daemon. I believe dbus is also required to work. Dbus daemon is running, and when I run top I see that gconf is present. I'm not sure what is going on here. I've tried a couple of things with .xinitrc with no luck. Either X fails to open, or I still get the "Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting" message when I try to run gnome-terminal. Rem >
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