Re: portable terminal

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 3:42 PM John W. Eaton <[email protected]> wrote:

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> A separate problem that I see is that when I'm starting Octave from a
> remote system it doesn't open the terminal window.  I'm not sure what's
> happening there.  I have a terminal window open on my desktop system
> running ssh to connect to another system with X forwarding through the
> ssh connection.  My DISPLAY is set properly.  The Octave GUI and Plot
> windows open correctly.  Executing
>
>    system ("emacs", false, "async")
>
> opens a new Emacs window.  But
>
>    system ("x-terminal-emulator", false, "async")
>
> does not.  Weird.
>
>
You can try to set LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose and see if you get some error
messages.
On un-related note, there is no "x-terminal-emulator" on Fedora/Redhat
systems.

Dmitri.
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