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#1 2009-11-18 06:51:33

speciousfool
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Registered: 2009-05-07
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xmonad + dmenu + Xfce Terminal Emulator hangs at green box

Previously I had been using the Xfce Terminal Emulator with dmenu xmonad. Most recently it stopped working and starting exhibiting the following behavior:

If I launch "Terminal" through dmenu then the terminal launches but hangs before providing a prompt. It shows instead a madding green cursor box. The menu system is still active but it never seems to be able to execute a shell. Alternatively, if I launch mrxvt and then type "Terminal" it works correctly but displays the following warning:

(Terminal:7162): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: Could not initialize inotify

Oddly, if I start a terminal with dmenu and then try to start another from mrxvt then they both hang with the green box. Close both down and suddenly mrxvt launched Terminals start working again.

Any ideas as to why Xfce Terminal isn't working with dmenu?

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#2 2009-11-24 00:41:43

nbyers
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From: Washington
Registered: 2009-04-18
Posts: 19

Re: xmonad + dmenu + Xfce Terminal Emulator hangs at green box

My XMonad setup does the same thing with gmrun. Perhaps it is XMonad's fault?

EDIT: Does the same thing when I try and launch the terminal with Mod + Shift + Enter. Anyone else having problems like this?

Last edited by nbyers (2009-11-24 01:04:41)


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#3 2009-11-24 02:58:58

llcawthorne
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From: Columbia, SC
Registered: 2009-10-16
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Re: xmonad + dmenu + Xfce Terminal Emulator hangs at green box

I never use terminal, but I gave this a try since I am running xmonad.

I get that empty but for a green cursor when I try to launch terminal from gmrun, but it works fine from dmenu. 

I get an "Unable to load terminal preferences." if I try to run it from a urxvtc command line, but it launches just fine. 

My hotkey works fine, but it is bound to urxvtc.

Last edited by llcawthorne (2009-11-24 02:59:07)


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