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plittlefield

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Registered: 2012-08-13

Posts: 7

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

secipolla

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 393

Re: xfce4-terminal in 4.10

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

angstrom

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Registered: 2011-08-13

Posts: 267

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)

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secipolla

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 393

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BTW, that wiki is outdated regarding starting Xfce with startx.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

plittlefield

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Registered: 2012-08-13

Posts: 7

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

plittlefield

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Registered: 2012-08-13

Posts: 7

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

plittlefield

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Registered: 2012-08-13

Posts: 7

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

angstrom

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Registered: 2011-08-13

Posts: 267

Re: xfce4-terminal in 4.10

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

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plittlefield

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Registered: 2012-08-13

Posts: 7

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

:-)

Jristz

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From: Sud-America

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 111

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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