Re: portable termina
"John W. Eaton" <[email protected]>
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On 7/29/20 4:09 PM, Rik 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.
>>
>
> Does it work if you use the name of the binary exactly
> (gnome-terminal)? There might be something strange about going through
> a symbolic link.
It still fails with gnome-terminal. I see now that if I wait long
enough (about a minute?) it eventually displays the message
# Error constructing proxy for
org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling
StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached
I did some searching and found some old discussions about this issue but
nothing I've tried so far has fixed it.
jwe