Re: Trouble with gnome-terminal

[Sam Steele <chip c99 org>]

I haven't seen this with the default Slackware versions of GNOME.  Which
version of Slack are you on?  You might also want to check out Dropline
GNOME, which is a nicely packaged version of GNOME 2.0.2 for Slackware. 
It even includes a console-based installer and updater.  Check out
http://www.dropline.net/gnome/ I've been running that for the past few
days (I usually use a build from GARNOME) and it seems to be pretty
solid.

-Sam

On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 08:12, Erin Raasch wrote:
> After a few months of running the SuSE 8.0 flavor of linux, I was 
> feeling brave and decided  to install Slackware in one of my vacant 
> partitions.  It went pretty well, and I've got things running for the 
> most part, but I'm having a particular problem with gnome-terminal.  
> 
> When I start gnome (v. 1.4), my screen is littered with about a dozen 
> error message boxes, all reading the same message:  "There has been an 
> error while tyring to log in.  If the SHELL environment variable is 
> empty, or there is no specified in the passwd file for your user, one of 
> these problems need to be corrected for the to run."  Yes, it appears 
> there are a few key words missing, and no, it is not a typo.
> 
> When I then open my .gnome/session file, it has about 10-12 entries for 
> gnome-terminal, as follows:
> 
> 8,id=11c0a8000c000103261616600000004280019
> 8,Program=gnome-terminal
> 8,CurrentDirectory=/home/eraasch
> 8,DiscardCommand=rm /home/eraasch/.gnome//gnome-terminal-x3bX9r/
> 8,CloneCommand=gnome-terminal --sm-config-prefix /gnome-terminal-x3bX9r/
> 8,RestartCommand=gnome-terminal --sm-config-prefix 
> /gnome-terminal-x3bX9r/ --sm-client-id 
> 11c0a8000c000103261616600000004280019
> 8,Environment=GNOME_DESKTOP_ICON /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-terminal.png
> 
> There are also a corresponding number of gnome-termial files in .gnome/ 
> which read like this:
> 
> [0]
> geometry=0x0+0+0
> class=Config
> terminal_id=0
> font=-*-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*-r-*
> wordclass=-A-Za-z0-9,./?%&#
> scrollpos=right
> bell_silenced=false
> blinking=false
> swap_del_and_backspace=false
> del_is_del=false
> login_by_default=false
> use_bold=true
> use_im=true
> use_fontset=true
> scrollbacklines=100
> color_set=0
> color_scheme=linux
> menubar=true
> scrollonkey=true
> scrollonoutput=false
> transparent=false
> shaded=false
> scroll_background=false
> background_pixmap=false
> pixmap_file=
> palette=rgb:0000/0000/0000 rgb:aaaa/0000/0000 rgb:0000/aaaa/0000 
> rgb:aaaa/5555/0000 rgb:0000/0000/aaaa rgb:aaaa/0000/aaaa 
> rgb:0000/aaaa/aaaa rgb:aaaa/aaaa/aaaa rgb:5555/5555/5555 
> rgb:ffff/5555/5555 rgb:5555/ffff/5555 rgb:ffff/ffff/5555 
> rgb:5555/5555/ffff rgb:ffff/5555/ffff rgb:5555/ffff/ffff 
> rgb:ffff/ffff/ffff rgb:bebe/bebe/bebe rgb:0000/0000/0000
> invoke_as_login_shell=false
> termname=xterm
> window_title=Terminal
> window_icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-terminal.png
> do_utmp=true
> do_wtmp=true
> start_terminal_factory=false
> use_terminal_factory=false
> do_lastlog=true
> 
> [dummy]
> num_terms=1
> 
> [factory]
> start=0
> use=0
> 
> 
> I really like the gnome desktop, but I seem to be cursed with problems 
> no matter where I go.  Can anyone help with this?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Erin
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