Gnome-terminal error in xfce

[John Shane]

Hmmm, I removed the one file I found in .gconfd/lock and I haven't had
any more Gnome error messages while using Gnome apps in Xfce4.  Of
course I also discovered that background colors changed in Gnome
applications.  Enhh?  I hadn't set anything special and it isn't a
problem but is unexpected.  Anyway, the error message has gone away for
the time being.  So many thanks. 

I will probably switch to a different terminal, Konsole maybe. 
Gnome-terminal was just easy to set fonts, background etc and generally
more esthetically pleasing than Xterm. John

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 08:27:09 -0500
Ben Hall <bhall-www at linuxgruven.ca> wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> I'm not sure, but I'd bet that this has to do with Gnome's problematic
> gconfd file locking.  (This is especially noticeable with NFS mounted
> home dirs, but I've also seen it happen on stand-alone systems,
> sometimes because evolution crashed.)
> 
> The solution/workaround is to manually remove all lock files in
> ~/.gconfd.
> 
> There's more info here:  (This is a temporary page.)
> 
> http://neo.caslab.queensu.ca/~bhall/stupid_gconf.html
> 
> The short version:  Try rm -rf  ~/.gconf*/*lock* and then relaunch the
> Gnome Terminal.  If that fixes it, you may consider adding this to
> your login script.
> 
> For the record, this was the major motivation for me to use XFCE for
> the undergraduate labs at work.  I was going to use RH's stock Gnome
> 2.4, but I was seeing too much of this sort of behaviour.  My solution
> was to stick with XFCE, xterm and other non-Gnome apps whenever
> possible.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> 
> On 02/21/2004 06:44 am, John Shane wrote:
> > When I start Gnome terminal in xfce I sometimes get the following
> > error:
> >
> >
> > Configuration server couldn't be contacted:
> >  CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/BAD_OPERATION:1.0
> >
> > It doesn't happen all the time, and I have not yet figured out the
> > pattern that triggers it.  The same thing happens sometimes when I
> > use Nautilus in xfce4. It happens when I'm connected to the office
> > LAN with permanent internet connection and also happens sometimes
> > when I'm using the laptop on its own off the network.  I have
> > gnome-terminal set as the terminal in my main menu configuration. 
> > Could it have anything to do with my xfce4 configuration?   John
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