Gnome terminal doesn't launch

Hey I just installed gnome on a fresh install of arch but if I try to login via GDM and launch gnome terminal I get the error "Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Termina:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.gnome.Terminal exited with status 8". This is running the latest gnome in the repo (not testing).

i hope this helps http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=180103

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[SOLVED] gnome-terminal won't start

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hiushoz wrote:Again if only the google search results were
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then i wouldn't be on here.
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Gnome 3.12 cannot launch gnome-terminal with sudo

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[SOLVED] Odd font spacing in gnome-terminal

Hi guys, i'm new to Arch and i'm loving it: everything is working flawlessly apart from monospaced fonts that look more spaced than what i'm used to (Ubuntu), here is what i'm talking about:
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<edit>
Some clarifications: the configuration does get applied, so it's not due to misplaced configuration files, the font tracking just doesn't look right.
The depicted font in the screenshots is Menlo, but any other monospaced font, such as the Droid Mono, will look wrongly spaced.
</edit>
Last edited by bmanuel (2011-11-06 11:12:45)

Oh well, it seems i got it: it seems that just selecting a size of 7.5 instead of 8 get exactly the same spacing as if using a size of 8 in Ubuntu, this without installing any -ubuntu/-lcd/-cleartype patches, only vanilla arch packages.
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