On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 04:57:16PM -0500, Jeff Beaird wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 01:29:31PM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote: > > > >>>I don't know if it makes a difference, but I'm quite sure I didn't have > >>>this problem on another unstable machine. The machine which is having > >>>the problem was recently installed from scratch; the other machine had > >>>been running unstable for a couple of years, and had also been installed > >>>from scratch. > > > >>>Just can't figure out why the problem exhibited itself on one machine > >>>more readily than another. > > > >>I'm not really sure why you are having a different behaviour with 2 > >>different unstable > >>installations. I don't have enough time to dig farther so I took the > >>simple approach > >>and set the DISPLAY before invoking the terminal widget itself. > > > >>Andreas, Can you please sponsor it ? > > > >>Here are the files: http://home.foolab.org/debs/multi-gnome-terminal/ > >>And here's the dsc file: > >>http://home.foolab.org/debs/multi-gnome-terminal/multi-gnome-terminal_1.6.2-13.dsc > > Sorry, I've been a bit out of the loop. > > Eventually, it would be _great_ if all the variables that a > gnome-terminal session knows about are also known by a > multi-gnome-terminal session. Other ones that I depend on regularly are > SSH_AGENT_PID SSH_AUTH_SOCK. > > Thanks for your help,
I'm planning to do that but - unfortunately- those changes won't hit etch. I'm almost sure that setting these variables won't cause problems but no one knows. I'll start working on them after etch (Hope I'll be a DD by that time) so I can move fast to fix anything ;-) All the best, -- GNU/Linux registered user #224950 Proud Egyptian GNU/Linux User Group <www.eglug.org> Member. Life powered by Debian, Homepage: www.foolab.org -- Don't send me any attachment in Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) format please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Preferable attachments: .PDF, .HTML, .TXT Thanx for adding this text to Your signature
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