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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Michael Casadevall
  • Date: 2008-11-04 19:43:14 UTC
  • mfrom: (1.1.12 upstream)
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20081104194314-1v1d28kn9md2p9n1
Tags: 0.2.8.3-0ubuntu1
* Merge with Debian XFCE SVN, remaining Ubuntu Changes:
  - debian/patches/xubuntu-change-desktop-category.patch:
    - Place terminal under Accessories, not System

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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Frequently asked questions</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../terminal.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.70.1"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Terminal Emulator"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Terminal Emulator"><link rel="prev" href="advanced.html" title="Advanced topics"><link rel="next" href="support.html" title="Support"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Frequently asked questions</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="advanced.html">Prev</a>�</td><th width="60%" align="center">�</th><td width="20%" align="right">�<a accesskey="n" href="support.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="faq"></a>Frequently asked questions</h2></div></div></div><p>The intent of this section is to collect the quite numerous frequently asked
 
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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Frequently asked questions</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../terminal.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.0"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Terminal Emulator"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Terminal Emulator"><link rel="prev" href="advanced.html" title="Advanced topics"><link rel="next" href="support.html" title="Support"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Frequently asked questions</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="advanced.html">Prev</a>�</td><th width="60%" align="center">�</th><td width="20%" align="right">�<a accesskey="n" href="support.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="faq"></a>Frequently asked questions</h2></div></div></div><p>The intent of this section is to collect the quite numerous frequently asked
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    question that relate to working with Terminal, or even terminal emulators in general. If
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    you know of a question that's missing from this page, please <a href="http://bugzilla.xfce.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Terminal&amp;format=guided" target="_top">file a request</a>.</p><div class="sect3" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"><a name="id2552785"></a>Terminal complains about <code class="literal">Unable to start terminal server: Unable to connect
 
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    you know of a question that's missing from this page, please <a class="ulink" href="http://bugzilla.xfce.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Terminal&amp;format=guided" target="_top">file a request</a>.</p><div class="sect3" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"><a name="id2557988"></a>Terminal complains about <code class="literal">Unable to start terminal server: Unable to connect
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        to D-BUS message daemon</code>, what can I do?</h4></div></div></div><p>Terminal tries to reduce the number of running instances by establishing a D-BUS service
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      that handles all terminal windows. The message above tells you that Terminal wasn't able to
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      connect to the D-BUS session message daemon and register a service. This is just a warning,
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      modify your xinitrc file and change the line <code class="literal">xfce4-session</code> to
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      <code class="literal">dbus-launch xfce4-session</code> or use <code class="literal">dbus-launch startxfce4</code>
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      to start Xfce instead. If you don't use Xfce, please look at the documentation of your
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      desktop environment on how to enable the D-BUS session daemon.</p></div><div class="sect3" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"><a name="id2552835"></a><span><strong class="keycap">Home</strong></span> and <span><strong class="keycap">End</strong></span> keys don't work in Terminal, what's wrong?</h4></div></div></div><p>This problem is actually a bug in <a href="http://developer.gnome.org/arch/gnome/widgets/vte.html" target="_top">vte</a>,
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      the terminal widget used by Terminal. A patch for vte that fixes the problem is available <a href="http://lunar-linux.org/lunar/patches/vte-0.11.11-termcap.patch" target="_top">here</a> (this patch was created
 
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      desktop environment on how to enable the D-BUS session daemon.</p></div><div class="sect3" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"><a name="id2558035"></a><span class="keycap"><strong>Home</strong></span> and <span class="keycap"><strong>End</strong></span> keys don't work in Terminal, what's wrong?</h4></div></div></div><p>This problem is actually a bug in <a class="ulink" href="http://developer.gnome.org/arch/gnome/widgets/vte.html" target="_top">vte</a>,
 
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      the terminal widget used by Terminal. A patch for vte that fixes the problem is available <a class="ulink" href="http://lunar-linux.org/lunar/patches/vte-0.11.11-termcap.patch" target="_top">here</a> (this patch was created
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      with version 0.11.11 of vte, it may not work with other versions). Thanks to Auke Kok for this patch.</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="advanced.html">Prev</a>�</td><td width="20%" align="center">�</td><td width="40%" align="right">�<a accesskey="n" href="support.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Advanced topics�</td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top">�Support</td></tr></table></div></body></html>