Cygwin having trouble with Fedora 11 gnome-terminal

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On 12/07/2009 18:03, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> Just upgraded my main Linux box to Fedora 11 and my cygwin installation
> on the laptop and windows boxen are having trouble with:
>
> 	ssh -Y -f gnome-terminal<user>@wolves.private
>
> They report missing "General Event Extension" missing errors and then
> fail to start gnome-terminal with a "unable to contact Gconf daemon".
> The problem seems to be specific to gnome-terminal in that I can install
> Terminal from XFCE and it starts up fine.
>
> Is this a cygwin problem or a Fedora11 problem?  Any ideas?

Neither; I have the same issue with my Cygwin-built gnome-terminal. 
It's actually an upstream bug:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564649

IOW,  unlike most GConf client apps, gnome-terminal just exits if it 
can't find a running GConf daemon (instead of launching one).

The workaround is to run "gconftool-2 --spawn" *before* gnome-terminal.


Yaakov
Cygwin/X

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