Re: portable termina

[John W. Eaton]

On 7/29/20 4:09 PM, Rik wrote:

> > A separate problem that I see is that when I'm starting Octave from a 
> > remote system it doesn't open the terminal window.  I'm not sure 
> > what's happening there.  I have a terminal window open on my desktop 
> > system running ssh to connect to another system with X forwarding 
> > through the ssh connection.  My DISPLAY is set properly.  The Octave 
> > GUI and Plot windows open correctly. Executing
> >
> >   system ("emacs", false, "async")
> >
> > opens a new Emacs window.  But
> >
> >   system ("x-terminal-emulator", false, "async")
> >
> > does not.  Weird.
>
> Does it work if you use the name of the binary exactly 
> (gnome-terminal)?  There might be something strange about going through 
> a symbolic link.

It still fails with gnome-terminal.  I see now that if I wait long 
enough (about a minute?) it eventually displays the message

  # Error constructing proxy for 
org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling 
StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached

I did some searching and found some old discussions about this issue but 
nothing I've tried so far has fixed it.

jwe