Re: Is there any documentation on how to configure the Gnome Desktop environment?

[Jape Person <japers@comcast.net>]

On 09/11/2014 02:35 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> In particular, I’m interested in getting Gnome under Jessie to use a
> terminal program that isn’t gnome-terminal.
>
> Anybody know how to do that?
>
> TLDNR: Gnome terminal, apparently, is broken if you use the “C”
> locale.  It wants to see a UTF8 locale, and refuses to work with
> anything less!  See Debian bug#746415 for details.  Programs like
> lxterminal and simple xterm work fine, so I’d like to configure Gnome
> to use one of them instead of the broken gnome-terminal.  But I
> haven’t discovered the right magical incantation to do that yet.
> Help?  Anybody?
>
> Rick

I'm sorry that I'm not likely to be helpful. I haven't used Gnome in a 
long time, and I know it has changed a lot.

I'm curious, though. How do you launch the terminal window -- from the 
menu system / from a desktop or panel shortcut of some kind? What 
happens when you use a launcher and specify that it launch xterm, as in 
/usr/bin/xterm?

Surely Gnome doesn't subsume all terminal executables and cause them to 
launch the Gnome terminal?

I hope you find a solution.

Jape