Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 09:50:04 -0453 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome-terminal failing to start Message-ID: <555B4C25.4050208@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <CAJ9BSW-mxm%2B1ZBMd7UUcGeOb4ZSQKCxcOmYLudtXQcXO1ZwHsw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJ9BSW-C2ppwGuUR9-3aBhW=pmq89tabLA38hdioGQN1s=Qh8Q@mail.gmail.com> <20150518134500.c63e0719.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAJ9BSW-mxm%2B1ZBMd7UUcGeOb4ZSQKCxcOmYLudtXQcXO1ZwHsw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 05/19/15 09:26, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > >> In this case, install the regular xterm or rxvt (or their >> -unicode version, if you need) and use those for further >> testing. Start "xterm" using Gnome's "Run..." dialog and >> then start the "gnome-terminal" (I think that's the binary's >> name) from within xterm. You should then be able to see >> an error message. > I completely forgot about xterm! When I tried gnome-terminal from > xterm it produced an error message as: "Error constructing proxy for > org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling > StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process > org.gnome.Terminal exited with status 8" > > After searching on the web a bit regarding the above error it turned > out to be system locale issue (which is C and not UTF-8 by default). > > But then I found out other gnome apps were crashing at random and I > personally found GNOME3 to be very unstable so I deinstalled gnome3 > and installed xfce4 which is my current setup. I hereby 2nd the motion on both GNOME3 & especially XFCE4, which is what I am using as I write this. It flats works for me & has a very modest RAM footprint, as well as good compatibility w/ various X11 apps/programs/utilities. YMMV & all that rot .... >> You're probably using a recent FreeBSD 10 system, so you're >> affected by the switch from sc to vt. This should help: >> >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons > I am sorry but I couldn't get what I should do to access virtual > terminals. From the given link it seems Newcons is a work in progress > and may be in the next few months devs will patch the vt issue. Am I > wrong in assuming this or should I take any explicit steps to access > virtual terminals? Sorry, no help there, I am on 9.3R-p13 .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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