(solved) gnome-terminal opening as xterm

So when I open gnome-terminal, the title shows xterm instead. What's causing this?
Last edited by zephyrus17 (2008-12-26 12:52:07)

a) Yes
b) I did pacman -S gnome-terminal and it just asked for a reinstall
EDIT: I think a restart fixed it. Thanks, anyway.
Last edited by zephyrus17 (2008-12-26 12:48:28)

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jasonwryan wrote:
Satanic Command Line wrote:Sadly none of the solutions made a difference
Not helpful. Provide some detail as to what you tried; don't be a help vampire...
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And then:
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reboot) that didn't work
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cemsbr wrote:
Recently my gnome-terminal initial path became "/" instead of my home. How can I fix that? I haven't this problem when I use xterm or log in out of Xorg.
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( SOLVED )gnome-terminal, su, sudo, gksu, gksudo does not work

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Last edited by tangram (2013-12-23 08:42:09)

tangram wrote:
Hurrican, ok, there is no need to install antother terminal, as I wrote it did not work also in xterm.
Yesterday evening, tired and sad that gk(su|sudo) still does not work,
as the "last chance idea", I logged in into multi-user mode ( init level 3 ) and changed root's password,
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You're right. I don't even have xterm installed so I guess I just singled out gnome-terminal and forgot that xterm also wasn't working.
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I have resolved this issue. The reason I guess is also "locale"
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gogoer wrote:
I don't meet C locale error message after I exec gnome-terminal. Although that, I post below output.
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C
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VC Keymap: n/a
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bch24 wrote:
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