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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:45:00
Message-Id: 58965d8a0909230744j13f365a5l18e3ec870cdc87bd@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal by walt
1 On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:40 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 09/21/2009 09:13 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote:
3 >>
4 >> Opens an identical xterm. In the original terminal it says
5 >>
6 >> Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct
7 >>
8 >> before spawning the new terminal.
9 >>
10 >> Search results inconclusive. BTW if you google "Warning: Cannot
11 >> convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct" + xfterm4 you get precisely
12 >> one hit, which I believe is known as a "googlewhack".
13 >>
14 >> This is the terminal I want, the one I used to have:
15 >>
16 >> http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/terminal
17 >>
18 >> This is the terminal I have now:
19 >>
20 >> http://www.xfce.org/projects/terminal...
21 >
22 > Is this still a problem for you? I just emerged x11-terms/terminal
23 > (both versions) and both are like the one you want. Neither package
24 > has anything to do with xfterm4, so maybe that's an obsolete file.
25
26 I don't have xfce installed at the moment but a bit a googling shows
27 xfterm4 is a launcher script for the panel that opens a terminal (not
28 necessarily Terminal, depending on what you've configured). Maybe you
29 can look at it and see what it's trying to do.