Re: portable terminal
"Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 6:04 PM Rik <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/29/2020 02:16 PM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 3:42 PM John W. Eaton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> 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. > > > I believe Fedora implements "alternatives" rather than Debian > "update-alternatives". Maybe you could check whether something like it > exists, but under another name. > It is not too difficult to create one, but it is not provided by default. > > --Rik > Dmitri. --