Xfce Terminal(s) closing

MkFly · 2011-03-04 06:46:10

I've had this problem for a few months now with Xfce. I generally have a few Terminal windows open, and sometimes they will all just decide to close, at the same time. If I just let them sit there, they seem fine. It always seems to happen while I'm working, as if I hit some super-secret key command to kill all of them.

Anybody experienced anything similar to this? It's really annoying.

ewaller · 2011-03-04 08:00:26

MkFly wrote:

Anybody experienced anything similar to this? It's really annoying.

yes. It happens to me in a VM [x86] at work so I have not had time to create a bug report. I don't see it on this laptop [x86_64 native]

Allan · 2011-03-04 08:25:05

I have seen this (on i686), but have not managed to track it down...

MkFly · 2011-03-07 22:48:26

Glad I'm not the only who's seeing/has seen this. Since it looks like dbus is having all Terminal windows run in one instance, I'm going to try running Terminal with --disable-server for a while (I always launch it with an Xfce keyboard "Application Shortcut," so that part is easy), which lets Terminal windows run in separate instances. Hopefully that will (at worst) limit the craziness to one Terminal window at a time:

Terminal manpage wrote:

--disable-server
Do not register with the D-BUS session message bus

If that doesn't work, I might just switch to sakura ...

Leonid.I · 2011-03-08 04:03:32

How do you start xfce? I have an xfce/i686 workstation with uptime measured in weeks and haven't seen anything like that I just have "exec ck-launch-session startxfce4" in .xinitrc.

MkFly · 2011-03-09 06:38:02

MkFly wrote:

If that doesn't work, I might just switch to sakura ...

Grr! I've been using Sakura for a few days and found something even more annoying than what I was getting with the Xfce Terminal. In Sakura, if at any time I copy some text or a URL to the clipboard, then when I quit with Ctrl-D, the window simply blanks to gray and then segfaults if I try to resize it. How lovely. I'm wondering if this is a Sakura bug, or a bug with some library in Arch that it's using? Sometimes it's hard to tell where a bug report should go.

abarahc · 2011-03-09 15:08:15

i'm starting xfce with this

exec xfce4

and terminals dont close :S

anyway, why you open various windows and not any tabs?

MkFly · 2011-03-09 16:16:24

abarahc wrote:

anyway, why you open various windows and not any tabs?

Because it's hard to watch the content of multiple tabs simultaneously. Anyway, I've been using ROXTerm for a while, which does more of what I want, less of what I don't, and doesn't use as much memory as the Xfce Terminal.

Inxsible · 2011-03-09 16:17:58

rxvt-unicode is another option.

Leonid.I · 2011-03-09 16:55:30

Workarounds aside, has anyone seen any dbus-related errors? You can start xfce in screen, and observe the output...

abarahc · 2011-03-09 23:05:49

Leonid.I wrote:

Workarounds aside, has anyone seen any dbus-related errors? You can start xfce in screen, and observe the output...

yes, do this!

if you cant solve this, try dvtm ;} a good option for big screens

MkFly · 2011-03-10 06:29:51

Leonid.I wrote:

Workarounds aside, has anyone seen any dbus-related errors? You can start xfce in screen, and observe the output...

I startx to load Xfce from VT, and I've switched back a few times after Terminal has quit/crashed, and I've seen nothing related to Terminal or dbus. Not even a segfault message.

There's no real must-have features for me in Terminal that aren't in others, so I'm just exploring alternatives. I'm pleased with ROXTerm so far. I like most of the VTE-based terminal emulators, the xvt ones not as much. Insanely nice to have so many viable options, though.

I didn't see anything about this on Xfce's bugtracker for Terminal on a quick search, so I will post something there, but I wish I had more info on it.

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abarahc · 2011-03-11 00:53:28

MkFly wrote:

Leonid.I wrote:
Workarounds aside, has anyone seen any dbus-related errors? You can start xfce in screen, and observe the output...
I startx to load Xfce from VT, and I've switched back a few times after Terminal has quit/crashed, and I've seen nothing related to Terminal or dbus. Not even a segfault message.
There's no real must-have features for me in Terminal that aren't in others, so I'm just exploring alternatives. I'm pleased with ROXTerm so far. I like most of the VTE-based terminal emulators, the xvt ones not as much. Insanely nice to have so many viable options, though.
I didn't see anything about this on Xfce's bugtracker for Terminal on a quick search, so I will post something there, but I wish I had more info on it.

oh! can you check if dbus and hal pkg are installed?

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MkFly · 2011-03-26 22:25:22

abarahc wrote:

oh! can you check if dbus and hal pkg are installed?

Oh yes, those are installed and running.

I've been using ROXTerm for a while now, been loving it so far, so I haven't been looking into the problem with the Xfce Terminal much lately.

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