On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 12:08:27PM -0500, Jeff Beaird wrote: > Mohammed Sameer wrote: > > >I had a look at the source code for gnome-terminal. gnome-terminal is > >setting the > >HOME environmental variable as well as some other variables. This explains > >why it's > >working fine with -display. > > > >I'll work on a patch for that. > > Thanks, Mohammed. > > I don't know if it makes a difference, but I'm quite sure I didn't have > this problem on another unstable machine. The machine which is having > the problem was recently installed from scratch; the other machine had > been running unstable for a couple of years, and had also been installed > from scratch. > > Just can't figure out why the problem exhibited itself on one machine > more readily than another. > > Thanks again, Sorry for the delay. I'm not really sure why you are having a different behaviour with 2 different unstable installations. I don't have enough time to dig farther so I took the simple approach and set the DISPLAY before invoking the terminal widget itself. Andreas, Can you please sponsor it ? Here are the files: http://home.foolab.org/debs/multi-gnome-terminal/ And here's the dsc file: http://home.foolab.org/debs/multi-gnome-terminal/multi-gnome-terminal_1.6.2-13.dsc -- GNU/Linux registered user #224950 Proud Egyptian GNU/Linux User Group <www.eglug.org> Member. Life powered by Debian, Homepage: www.foolab.org -- Don't send me any attachment in Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) format please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Preferable attachments: .PDF, .HTML, .TXT Thanx for adding this text to Your signature
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