[arch-general] Gotta be a stupid gnome-terminal problem

[Matthew Monaco]

On 03/02/2013 07:17 PM, David Benfell wrote:
> 
> On 03/02/2013 06:08 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote:
> 
> 
>> You can see if anything is running under the terminal with ps -AHf when
>> gnome-terminal is running. Check the preferences under the "Title and
> Command"
>> tab to make sure you haven't overridden your shell. You can try
> hard-coding your
>> shell there to see if that does anything.
> 
> That's an interesting trick.  It yields:
> 
> benfell   5248   471  0 18:11 ?        00:00:00           gnome-terminal
> benfell   5253  5248  0 18:11 ?        00:00:00             gnome-pty-helper
> benfell   5254  5248  0 18:11 pts/2    00:00:00             /bin/zsh
> 
> I had already checked the preferences and hard-coded the shell. And this
> says it's running. So why don't I see it?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

Sorry, I don't have definitive answer. You can check ~/.xession-errors and $
journalctl -bp warning for clues. (If you use GDM .xsession-errors might have
been moved recently.