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

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

On 09/11/14 05:10, Jape Person wrote:
> 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

I click on the "activites" in the upper left of the basic Gnome screen.  
That gives me a list of "favorites" on the left.  The last "favorite" is 
a tic-tac-toe board that, when clicked, gives a list of all the 
"approved" Gnome apps.  One of those is "terminal" another is "root 
terminal".  Those each start the actual program 
"/usr/bin/gnome-terminal" each with a different perl wrapper. 
"/usr/bin/gnome-terminal" is the one with the problem.

If I open the file browser and brows to "/usr/bin" I can find 
"lxterminal" (after I installed it) and "xterm" (which comes standard 
and doesn't need to be installed.)  If I double-click on one of them, I 
get a terminal window with a shell.

When I type "gnome-terminal" into the shell on lxterminal, I get the 
error messages given in the bug report.

That's where I stand now.

Enjoy!

Rick