Re: [orca-list] What's Wrong with Gnome-Terminal?

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

AThanks for the suggested approach to capturing debug output while running gnome-terminal from the GUI. I'll try that this evening. I don't know what it is about x.org but it seems like every year or bit later, x some how gets screwed up on my system and I end up haveing to re-install the whole bloody thing again! I hope that isn't the case here. I'm about to the point to do anything with GUI on the Mac; at least it works there all the time. Hardly any flakiness. Orca and Firefox and Thunderbird are working really nice now but I keep encountering strange behaviors with X in general over time.

I hope the error messages from this next test can be more informative then those earlier. So far, I don't know anything more than I new a couple days ago. I don't even have enough information to put into a duck duck go search <sigh>.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:27 AM, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br> wrote:

Hi Steve.

I beleive that you can try the following:

Create a file with the following content:


#!/bin/sh
gnome-terminal 1>output.1 2>output.2

Save the file and change the execution permission.

chmod +x filename


Now, in a gnome session press alt+f2 and type the complete path of the file that you save previously.
Press the return key.

I hope that this will create two files called output.1 and output.2 and probably in one of the files  we'll find the cause of the problem.

On 04/23/2015 09:26 AM, Jason White wrote:

Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com> wrote:

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 01:38:43AM -0400, covici ccs covici com wrote:

You might want to export DISPLAY=:0 before trying to run
gnome-terminal.  But do a bash command before doing so, otherwise
everything in your command window will want to use the display.  Do an
exit after you are tthrough with debugging and everything will be back
to normal.

I tried that plus I found that I could start gnome-terminal with a
"--display=:0" but in both cases, I get some more strange errors
displayed and I will show them below.

I've just tested Gnome-Terminal on an up to date Arch Linux system. I invoked
it by typing "terminal" from the activities overview. All worked fine and I
was able to read the contents of the terminal with both speech and braille,
and issue shell commands.

So, the problem is something specific to your installation; it isn't an Arch
issue or a GNOME issue as such. We need to know what's relevantly unique to
your setup that causes the problem.

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