[sort of SOLVED] Terminator 0.91 now ignores its own config

tawan · 2010-04-01 11:30:10

[sort of SOLVED]

Hiram wrote:

It's the vte package causing all the problems. I just upgraded Terminator to 0.91 again, leaving vte at 0.22.5-1, and it's fine. It does ignore colour settings and what not, but I figure that's better than crashing and not working.

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Today's updates brought me terminator 0.91 (which I thought I already had)

It now ignores it's config and loads completely transparent with white text.

CTRL+SHIFT+T which should give a new tab in fact now crashes Terminator.

Terminator now has a GUI set of preferences and adjusting these does alter the config file, but these settings are still ignored by terminator.

Not that this should matter, but it may, I'm on Openbox

EDIT:

Tried so far...

Deleting all configs.
Making new configs
Making new profile
...so far nothing has altered this new default look of 'completely transparent background and white text'

Last edited by tawan (2010-04-03 11:38:49)

rent0n · 2010-04-01 11:47:35

Same problem here, but didn't investigated very much.
Terminator crashes on every keybind to create new tabs or split windows and ignores config file.

However the syntax of the config file has changed, so older config files can't work anymore: check man terminator_config for details.
Probaly the safer way to configure it is to edit the config file (with the new syntax and options) and then start terminator: the GUI preferences windows is a lot buggy, cashes and doesn't save anything.

I'm quite sure these bugs will be fixed soon, the developer is very active. In the meantime I switched back to Terminal.

tawan · 2010-04-01 11:58:00

thanks rent0n

mos98 · 2010-04-01 12:44:46

tawan wrote:

thanks rent0n

try to get in contact with the team directly there are very friendly and helpful

https://answers.launchpad.net/terminato … tion/25135

speedboy · 2010-04-01 23:01:27

I've got the same problem too. Downgrading doesn't work either.

[edit] I'm using gnome

Last edited by speedboy (2010-04-01 23:03:21)

liticovjesac · 2010-04-02 09:41:11

Same here. Transparent and it breaks whenever i try to split screen.
One notice. It seams that terminator is not transparent when i fired him up. Let me explain. I had one terminator session opened when i changed background color and opened new terminator session. New one had the same background as my new background and the old one had old background. So i don't know how terminator works, did it cache background or what. Transparency is disabled by default and when I enable transparency in gui then I have not so transparent terminal depending on transparency level in configuration.

edit.
Where is a terminator config file? One is in the .config/terminator but that's the one that u get using gui editor. There must be one which is a default and which overrides by .config/teminator/config when exist since I have been deleted .config/terminator/config and the new one havent been created when I fired up terminator.

Last edited by liticovjesac (2010-04-02 10:23:29)

Hiram · 2010-04-03 11:11:41

Would anyone know any alternatives to Terminator, providing the same "tiling" support?

I figure this is the place to ask. I won't be using Terminator anymore due to this recent update breaking everything.

Edit: To those who experience the problem after downgrading, downgrade the vte package as well. I went back to 0.22.5-1 and it is all better now, just like before the upgrade.

http://archlinux.umflint.edu/extra/os/ this mirror has the old version as of now for those who clear their cache.

Edit again: It's the vte package causing all the problems. I just upgraded Terminator to 0.91 again, leaving vte at 0.22.5-1, and it's fine. It does ignore colour settings and what not, but I figure that's better than crashing and not working.

Last edited by Hiram (2010-04-03 11:21:23)

schnitz · 2010-04-03 11:32:02

Thank you, Hiram! I just downloaded the vte-package from that mirror, installed it with pacman -Uf and after restarting terminator it works flawlessly again!

tawan · 2010-04-03 11:36:48

thanks Hiram - Should I mark the thread as solved now?

dastagg · 2010-04-03 11:43:31

THANK YOU! Hiram for the fix.
It was really starting to tick me off that it wasn't working correctly.

wonder · 2010-04-03 11:53:21

anyone what to test something?

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=614511

try what is described in comment 1

rent0n · 2010-04-03 12:02:45

@Hiram
I'm using Terminal (xfce) and tmux.
tmux is a terminal multiplexer with many advanced features, including splitting windows into panes.
It's much more powerful (and stable) than terminator but is not that user-friendly and requires a bit more of reading the manual and tweaking the config file.
Cheers,

Last edited by rent0n (2010-04-03 12:05:41)

speedboy · 2010-04-03 18:57:56

The vte 0.24.0-2 update seems to have fixed the problem for me!

_lunix_ · 2010-04-03 22:40:43

Terminator was segfaulting on startup for me yesterday but works perfect with the vte update.

Thanks to who ever did the work to debug and fix it.
Prompt service !

rent0n · 2010-04-05 08:50:16

Confirming the latest vte update solves terminator crashes.
Still some problems with saving configuration via gui.
The worst thing about this release, however, is the new behaviour of the hide titlebar option.

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#1 2010-04-01 11:30:10

[sort of SOLVED] Terminator 0.91 now ignores its own config

#2 2010-04-01 11:47:35

Re: [sort of SOLVED] Terminator 0.91 now ignores its own config

#3 2010-04-01 11:58:00

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#5 2010-04-01 23:01:27

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