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xhhe

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Registered: 2007-01-23

Posts: 2

problem with terminal under xfce4.4

I just install xfce4.4. Everything seams fine and faster. But a problem occurs. when I run terminal, the startup window just give me a blink flash  and then disappear without any notification.
I also try run gnome-terminal and it is oK. Why, and is this a bug? is there anyone meet similar problem?

Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: problem with terminal under xfce4.4

Welcome to the board, xhhe!

Have you tried starting it out of a different terminal, i.e. gnome-terminal or xterm? Are there any error messages?

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MillTek

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Registered: 2005-01-30

Posts: 442

Re: problem with terminal under xfce4.4

Hi,

I ran it from an xterm and get this;

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=29103

Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: problem with terminal under xfce4.4

Make sure that you did a full update and that you are using terminal-0.2.6-1. Probably it's a mirror syncing problem.

Have you checked which version of terminal you have installed?

pacman -Qi terminal

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MillTek

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Registered: 2005-01-30

Posts: 442

Re: problem with terminal under xfce4.4

Pacman -Qi gives terminal 0.2.4-6.  PAcman -Sy terminal still gives 0.2.4-6. Seems the mirror synching hasn't happened yet.

xerverius

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Registered: 2004-11-02

Posts: 230

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Re: problem with terminal under xfce4.4

Hi,

I ran it from an xterm and get this;

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=29103

You guys are mixing xfce4-terminal and terminal. Those are 2 different applications (/me can see this because terminal 0.2.6 is not linked to libxfcegui4, the other one is...).
So run this:

pacman -R xfce4-terminal
pacman -S terminal

This will probably fix it.

MillTek

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Registered: 2005-01-30

Posts: 442

Re: problem with terminal under xfce4.4

Eh..... Not so much.

Pacman -R xfce4-terminal gives:

error: could not find xfce4-terminal in database

and Pacman -S terminal gives:

terminal-0.2.4-6 is up to date. Upgrade anyway? [Y/n]

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: problem with terminal under xfce4.4

Switch to a more uptodate mirror or wait before your mirror synced. The current version is terminal 0.2.6-2 while your mirror have 0.2.4

MillTek

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Registered: 2005-01-30

Posts: 442

Re: problem with terminal under xfce4.4

my mirror synched!

Thanks.

Jim

xhhe

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Registered: 2007-01-23

Posts: 2

Re: problem with terminal under xfce4.4

hello, the problem has been solved. I delete the old user account and made a new one. Now everything is fine. Maybe some old  configurations conflicted with terminal. Anyway, Terminal always runs OK at root account. I am using terminal-2.4.6-1 version.