XFCE from trunk problems

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Tue Jun 3 05:08:12 CEST 2008



On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:23:06 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:

> On lun, 2008-06-02 at 11:15 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> > > Another problem: If I press alt+f2 to execute an application, I
> > write
> > > xfce4-terminal but nothing happends... If I execute terminal, it
> > open a
> > > terminal then I write xfce4-terminal into the another terminal and
> > it
> > > opens the new terminal (wohh!!! sorry for my english!)
> > 
> > Why are you using xfce4-terminal?  It is unmaintained and doesn't
> > work 
> > very well.  You should be using Terminal.  Regardless, I have not 
> > experienced the problem you describe.
> 
> xfce4-terminal is Terminal name under Debian/Ubuntu. Terminal was too
> generic for a package and a command name, so we had to rename it.
> xfce4-terminal was chosen because nobody knew at that time that there
> was another (dead already) project named like this.

Right, but he's installing from SVN, so he'd get xfce4-terminal from the
xfce4-terminal module, and Terminal from the terminal module.

	-brian



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