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ndttt

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Registered: 2017-03-19

Posts: 38

[SOLVED] Gnome auto-logging me out

For the past few hours my system has been randomly logging itself out and on the screen I catch it reading out something like..

^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@

I think I've narrowed it down to followed a few instructions online... stupid move I know, but I hope you guys can help me out. I was trying to change my default terminal to terminator and followed these comments.

sudo mv /usr/bin/gnome-terminal /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.bak
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/terminator /usr/bin/gnome-terminal

With my terrible searching skills, I've found two more links that might help, but I don't fully understand them and I don't want to necro old threads.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93975
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93095

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

edit : I also want to note that I did this because gnome-terminal wasn't working on my system.

If I tried to launch gnome-terminal from terminator, it would give me

Warning: DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID not set and no fallback available.
Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached

Last edited by ndttt (2017-06-14 10:03:36)

ndttt

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Registered: 2017-03-19

Posts: 38

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome auto-logging me out

I'm not sure if it's proper to do so, but I'm going to post the solutions I found.

For the auto-logging issue, I reinstalled my Arch setup and it still happened. I narrowed it down to one of Gnome's extensions - Impatience. No idea why it causes it, but removing it solved the issue.

As for gnome not launching terminal, it was due to my locale being ISO and not UTF-8 found https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=180103