On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:17:52AM +0100, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> just upgraded from woody to sarge.  Previously, I did not yet have
> XFCE on this machine so the configuration is pretty OOTB.

> When I click on the icon for the terminal in the XFCE panel it appears
> as if the computer is trying to start the application but in the end
> nothing really happens.  I thought that maybe there is some issue with
> the path environment and that the executable cannot be found.  So I
> looked up the location with 'which xfterm4' and changed the properties
> for the panel entry to /usr/bin/xfterm4.  This did not change
> anything.  Currently I am without shell access under XFCE.

It's just a shell script.  It runs a real terminal.  It'll run
x-terminal-emulator by default.

Try update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator and setting it to
something sane and trying it again.

Simon.

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