Jacob Anawalt <jacob@cachevalley.com> writes:
> I have tried setting the gnome prefs with gnomecc
> (gnome-control-center 1.4 is on my system and in testing) for default
> applications/terminal from Standard X Term to custom terminal xterm -e
> since first filing this bug. It made no difference. I wondered if it
> would do anything since the gnome-panel and gnome-session are 2.2 on
> my system and in testing.
Oh. You're right, it won't work with that version.
Instead, you could try these commands:
gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/applications/terminal/exec \
--type=string x-terminal-emulator
gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/applications/terminal/exec_arg \
--type=string -- -e
Or install gconf-editor and change the settings with that.
Or install a newer gnome-control-center from unstable.
> The idea of having the alternatives move into gconf for terminal
> emulators wouldn't even need to be considered if say gnome-terminal
> were required to be installed as part of the gnome desktop system.
If you want all of GNOME, you should install the "gnome"
metapackage, which depends on gnome-core, whose unstable
version depends on gnome-terminal. Of course, this version
won't propagate into testing until gnome-terminal does. :-(
I don't think more packages should depend on gnome-terminal:
it is certainly possible to configure GNOME to use some other
terminal, so installing gnome-terminal should not be required.
However, if libgnome2-common contains a schema that uses
gnome-terminal as a default, it would be reasonable for
libgnome2-common to recommend gnome-terminal.