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tricky

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[SOLVED] Slight Terminal Problem

Hi,

I wonder if anyone can advise.
My system has 3 terminals...terminal, root terminal and lxterminal.
Root terminal has stopped working. It crashes when I open it with no error message. Sometimes on 'terminal' I get 'Another process is using this' when I try to close.
lxterminal works fine but what does lx mean?.
Either way from terminal I can su and get root.
Also when I did htop /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon was running multiple times (about 15).
Any suggestions?.

Last edited by tricky (2009-04-07 18:27:10)

japetto

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Re: [SOLVED] Slight Terminal Problem

As for LXTerminal question, it is the standard terminal emulator of LXDE.

I am not sure what "root terminal" is, but I would guess it is something specific to your DE.  What DE (desktop environment) are you running?  The "root terminal" app is probably just hung and needs to be killed via htop or with the kill/killlall command.

As for console-kit-daemon question, the search function is your friend:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57491

3nd3r

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Re: [SOLVED] Slight Terminal Problem

Personally, the ONLY terminal that I use is rxvt-unicode. It is highly customizable via .Xdefaults.

There is a thread around here somewhere that has alot of configs for it.

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tricky

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Re: [SOLVED] Slight Terminal Problem

My DE is gnome. At one point lxde popped up without me knowing I installed it.
Maybe I should get rid of those terminals. I think root terminal came from xfce which I had on before gnome. I was going to do pacman --remove xfce but there were dependencies so I just disabled any xfce stuff in sessions.

Update:removed xfce4 and lxde bits. Now I need a nice terminal for Gnome.
Does rxvt-unicode work on Gnome?

pacman -S rxvt-unicode?

Is it best to remove gnome-terminal before installing another?.

Last edited by tricky (2009-04-07 18:19:01)

3nd3r

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Re: [SOLVED] Slight Terminal Problem

yes, it works great. I use gnome and urxvt here is a cressnshot for you: http://www.anime-rising.info/files/imag … ot-1_0.png

here is my .Xdefaults

Xft.dpi: 96
#*font: *-gelly-*
*faceName:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=11

!---------------!
!-> Terminals <-!
!---------------!
!---!! urxvt !!---!
urxvt*termName: rxvt
urxvt*loginShell:true
urxvt*inheritPixmap: true
urxvt*tintColor: gray40
urxvt*foreground: White
urxvt*internalBorder: 0
urxvt*background: Black
urxvt*scrollBar: false
urxvt*saveLines: 30000
urxvt*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=11
! Black text color
urxvt*color0:  #000000
urxvt*color8:  #000000
! Red text color
urxvt*color1:  #a35757
urxvt*color9:  #a35757
! Green text color
urxvt*color2:  #7ac470
urxvt*color10: #7ac470
! Yellow text color
urxvt*color3:  #dfe14e
urxvt*color11: #dfe14e
! Blue text color
urxvt*color4:  #5083b2
urxvt*color12: #6494c1
! Magenta text color
urxvt*color5:  #b781ac
urxvt*color13: #c866b4
! Cyan text color
urxvt*color6:  #8787a0
urxvt*color14: #8787a0
! White text color
urxvt*color7:  #f0f0f0
urxvt*color15: #ffffff
! Bold text color
urxvt*colorBD: #ffffff
! Underlined text color
urxvt*colorUL: #fff796

!---!! Aterm !!---!
atermloginShell:true
aterm*transparent:true
aterm*shading:60
aterm*background:Black
aterm*foreground:White
aterm*scrollBar:false
!!aterm*scrollBar_left:true
aterm*saveLines:30000
!!aterm*transpscrollbar:true
aterm*font:-*-Bright-*
!! Black text color
aterm*color0:  #000000
aterm*color8:  #000000
!! Red text color
aterm*color1:  #a35757
aterm*color9:  #a35757
!! Green text color
aterm*color2:  #7ac470
aterm*color10: #7ac470
!! Yellow text color
aterm*color3:  #dfe14e
aterm*color11: #dfe14e
!! Blue text color
aterm*color4:  #5083b2
aterm*color12: #6494c1
!! Magenta text color
aterm*color5:  #b781ac
aterm*color13: #c866b4
!! Cyan text color
aterm*color6:  #8787a0
aterm*color14: #8787a0
!! White text color
aterm*color7:  #f0f0f0
aterm*color15: #ffffff
!! Bold text color
aterm*colorBD: #ffffff
!! Underlined text color
aterm*colorUL: #fff796

!---!! xterm !!---!
xtermloginShell:true
xterm*background:Black
xterm*foreground:White
xterm*scrollBar:false
!!xterm*scrollBar_left:true
xterm*saveLines:30000
!!xterm*transpscrollbar:true
xterm*faceName:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=11
!! Black text color
xterm*color0:  #000000
xterm*color8:  #000000
!! Red text color
xterm*color1:  #a35757
xterm*color9:  #a35757
!! Green text color
xterm*color2:  #7ac470
xterm*color10: #7ac470
!! Yellow text color
xterm*color3:  #dfe14e
xterm*color11: #dfe14e
!! Blue text color
xterm*color4:  #5083b2
xterm*color12: #6494c1
!! Magenta text color
xterm*color5:  #b781ac
xterm*color13: #c866b4
!! Cyan text color
xterm*color6:  #8787a0
xterm*color14: #8787a0
!! White text color
xterm*color7:  #f0f0f0
xterm*color15: #ffffff
!! Bold text color
xterm*colorBD: #ffffff
!! Underlined text color
xterm*colorUL: #fff796

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tricky

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Re: [SOLVED] Slight Terminal Problem

Thank you folks for that help.
3nd3r..that is one kewl terminal.
I've removed gnome-terminal (it's just an emulator) and installed the two terminal you suggested.
Errors have gone.;)

3nd3r

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Re: [SOLVED] Slight Terminal Problem

urxvt has nice features, you can run it standalone, or as daemon/client urxvtd as daemon and urxvtc as client. there is also a tabbed urxvt somewhere
enjoy

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tricky

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Re: [SOLVED] Slight Terminal Problem

As for LXTerminal question, it is the standard terminal emulator of LXDE.

I am not sure what "root terminal" is, but I would guess it is something specific to your DE.  What DE (desktop environment) are you running?  The "root terminal" app is probably just hung and needs to be killed via htop or with the kill/killlall command.

As for console-kit-daemon question, the search function is your friend:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57491

Thank you yes I saw that, I figured I better not uninstall it though (HAL) needs it for one thing. Apparently it's only one process all the others are threads.