gnome-terminal foobar

[Lan Barnes]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:42:21PM -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> On 3/6/06, Lan Barnes <lan at falleagle.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:28:53PM -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> > > On 3/6/06, Lan Barnes <lan at falleagle.net> wrote:
> > > > I've never had this happen before. For some reason on my laptop, the
> > > > gnome-terminal program has decided not to work. It loads the frame,
> > > > tries for a while, and then stops responding. xterm works just fine.
> > > >
> > > > I searched for (1) a config, local or system, and (2) the gnome
> > > > definition applet file, and could find neither.
> > > >
> > > > A good experiment, which I haven't done yet, would be to try it as
> > > > another user.
> > > >
> > > > Any quick insights out there?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Can you try another workspace?
> > >
> >
> > ???? "workspace"?
> 
> Those things that let you work easily in another context.  Controlled
> by "Workspace Switcher".  Readily available in Fedora Core, and
> Ubuntu.  I don't know about other distributions.
> 
> I thought that Fedora came with a 4-space switcher out of the box. 
> Try right-click on the task bar, and choose "Add to Panel" and then
> "Workspace Switcher".  If you don't have this, you are missing a great
> GUI enhancement.
> 

I thought that's what you meant, but it fails equally in all of them. I
know that have some context, but I was confused as to why that would
make any difference.

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