Re: GNOME-Terminal is blank or inactive in Awesome WM on Debian 7
On Mon, 26 May 2014 09:35:02 +0100
"Karl E. Jorgensen" <karl@jorgensen.org.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 03:56:47PM +0600, Muntasim Ul Haque wrote:
> > Hi,
> > GNOME-Terminal is blank in Awesome WM. It just opens but doesn't
> > show anything. Not even by username and hostname. Absolutely
> > nothing. But Xfce terminal was working great. Even Terminator is
> > working properly. So what's wrong with GNOME-Terminal?
>
> I once had a similar problem - when pulseaudio had hung for some
> reason. Turned out that because the audio path was blocked, GNOME
> apps (mainly gnome-terminal) would hang when doing the sound effects
> (which I thought I had turned off). Other tool like xterm, rxvt etc
> worked fine...
>
> Hope this helps
>
Another possibility is that it is working fine, but with black text.
No, I'm not joking, I've seen this more than once. You could try typing
the name of an application you know will run from the terminal. If that
works, dig into the terminal profile settings and select the system
colours (or deselect if this is already selected).
--
Joe
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