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#1 2012-08-13 11:02:38

plittlefield
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Registered: 2012-08-13
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xfce4-terminal in 4.10

Hi Folks

(My first post so be gentle)

I use XFCE on my Mythbuntu server and my laptop.

On Mythbuntu, XFCE version 4.8 is installed and comes with xfce4-terminal 0.4.8

However, on my Gentoo laptop, with XFCE version 4.10, I cannot find xfce4-terminal.

I would really rather have xfce4-terminal than Gnome Terminal.

Has xfce-terminal been removed from 4.10, or am I just being silly and have missed installing a package in Gentoo?!

Thanks.

:-)

Paully

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#2 2012-08-13 11:32:32

secipolla
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Registered: 2012-01-15
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Re: xfce4-terminal in 4.10

It's not dead but its latest release is still 0.4.8

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#3 2012-08-13 12:20:06

angstrom
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Re: xfce4-terminal in 4.10

May be on Gentoo, xfce's terminal is not named xfce4-terminal ? Try terminal or Terminal may be ?
Edit : see here http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xfce#Terminal_emulator

Last edited by angstrom (2012-08-13 12:21:55)


Xfce is NOT Xubuntu. Bugs in Xubuntu don't mean that Xfce is buggy ...

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#4 2012-08-13 13:19:49

secipolla
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Re: xfce4-terminal in 4.10

BTW, that wiki is outdated regarding starting Xfce with startx. It should be

exec startxfce4 --with-ck-launch

http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=26311#p26311

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#5 2012-08-14 12:29:30

plittlefield
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Re: xfce4-terminal in 4.10

Ah, yes... found it. It IS in Gentoo but marked as incompatible with the 4.10 release :-(

# emerge -pv xfce-utils

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N     ] xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.8.3  USE="dbus lock -debug" 860 kB
[uninstall     ] xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.10.0  USE="consolekit policykit udev xscreensaver -debug -gnome-keyring"
[uninstall     ] xfce-base/xfce4-appfinder-4.10.0  USE="-debug"
[blocks B      ] xfce-base/xfce-utils ("xfce-base/xfce-utils" is blocking xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.10.0, xfce-base/xfce4-appfinder-4.10.0, xfce-base/libxfce4ui-4.10.0)
Total: 1 package (1 new, 2 uninstalls), Size of downloads: 860 kB
Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)
* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
* installed at the same time on the same system.
  (xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.8.3::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
    xfce-utils


I wonder why the xfce4-terminal has been held back from being in the 4.10 release...

...you would have thought a terminal would be high on the list of software people use in Linux?!?

Oh well, as there is no point in going backwards to 4.8... I will have to keep waiting...

:-(

Thanks for all your replies.

Paully

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#6 2012-08-14 12:31:28

plittlefield
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Re: xfce4-terminal in 4.10

I have had an afterthought...

...instead of installing xfce-utils from the Gentoo ebuild, I COULD maybe just untar it and compile by hand to give me what I want?

:-)

Paully

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#7 2012-08-14 12:42:57

plittlefield
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Re: xfce4-terminal in 4.10

# ebuild /usr/portage/xfce-base/xfce-utils/xfce-utils-4.8.3.ebuild test

OK, this worked and compiled what I thought contained it, but alas cannot find xfce4-terminal binary...

# find /var/tmp/portage/xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.8.3/ -type f -iname '*terminal*'

...so which package is it in?

:-O

Paully

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#8 2012-08-14 14:07:49

angstrom
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Re: xfce4-terminal in 4.10

All these questions depend on Gentoo package managing so you will have better chance in Gentoo forum.


Xfce is NOT Xubuntu. Bugs in Xubuntu don't mean that Xfce is buggy ...

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#9 2012-08-14 20:20:57

plittlefield
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Re: xfce4-terminal in 4.10

OK, so I asked in the Gentoo Forums and found it... a combination of my laziness and slightly awkward package naming IMHO...

I naturally and WRONGLY assumed it would in the xfce-base/ or xfce-extra/ category... or maybe pulled in by the 'xfce4-meta' package...

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-933430.html

emerge x11-terms/terminal

:-)

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#10 2012-08-17 05:23:30

Jristz
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Registered: 2011-06-02
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Re: xfce4-terminal in 4.10

this is why terminal need a rename to xfterminal or any other

how you see name clash now exist for other terms...and mayve xfterminal need a little of code like mousepad now


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