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* Cygwin having trouble with Fedora 11 gnome-terminal
@ 2009-07-12 23:20 G.Wolfe Woodbury
2009-07-13 0:23 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: G.Wolfe Woodbury @ 2009-07-12 23:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-xfree
Just upgraded my main Linux box to Fedora 11 and my cygwin installation
on the laptop and windows boxen are having trouble with:
ssh -Y -f gnome-terminal <user>@wolves.private
They report missing "General Event Extension" missing errors and then
fail to start gnome-terminal with a "unable to contact Gconf daemon".
The problem seems to be specific to gnome-terminal in that I can install
Terminal from XFCE and it starts up fine.
Is this a cygwin problem or a Fedora11 problem? Any ideas?
G.Wolfe Woodbury
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* Re: Cygwin having trouble with Fedora 11 gnome-terminal
2009-07-12 23:20 Cygwin having trouble with Fedora 11 gnome-terminal G.Wolfe Woodbury
@ 2009-07-13 0:23 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) @ 2009-07-13 0:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-xfree
On 12/07/2009 18:03, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> Just upgraded my main Linux box to Fedora 11 and my cygwin installation
> on the laptop and windows boxen are having trouble with:
>
> ssh -Y -f gnome-terminal<user>@wolves.private
>
> They report missing "General Event Extension" missing errors and then
> fail to start gnome-terminal with a "unable to contact Gconf daemon".
> The problem seems to be specific to gnome-terminal in that I can install
> Terminal from XFCE and it starts up fine.
>
> Is this a cygwin problem or a Fedora11 problem? Any ideas?
Neither; I have the same issue with my Cygwin-built gnome-terminal.
It's actually an upstream bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564649
IOW, unlike most GConf client apps, gnome-terminal just exits if it
can't find a running GConf daemon (instead of launching one).
The workaround is to run "gconftool-2 --spawn" *before* gnome-terminal.
Yaakov
Cygwin/X
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