On 19Aug2011 22:29, Alex Troubadour <fasnet99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Hi, Cameron, | thanks for your reply. Adding the check for xterm helped. There is | no "xterm" in the path. So, what is the $PATH as recited in the output file? Also, xterm seems no longer installed by default; IMO this is an error - it is the "basic always available" terminal program and not installing it is a bit like not installing /bin/sh, albeit not as serious. Of course, nothing prevents you installing xterm with yum; it is certainly available in RHEL6. Unless you're not the sysadmin I suppose. | I made a symbolic link to gnome-terminal and | called it xterm and when I get my green background and click and select | "xterm" from the menu, an xterm actually opens. | Thanks ... thi is workable although I have to play with the xterm to | see if there are any issue - there were font messages in xstartup.out | after I made the link. That's probably gnome-terminal wanting more than xterm does. Gnome-terminal isn't option-compatible with xterm, so it would be better for you to install xterm. | Thanks again for your help. Ideally, xterm will be open when I vnc | in rather than my having to click on the background to get a menu and | select xterm ... do you know an easy way to do this ? If not, that is | fine ... this is at least workable. The lack of xterm on startup is probably gnome-terminal not liking one of the options in your xterm incanation (you are, after all, running gnome-terminal and not xterm); hopefully there would be an error message in the output file indicating this. I would install xterm as a first choice, or otherwise explicitly run gnome-terminal instead of xterm (with suitably changed options). Is there a reason you can't install xterm using yum? Or, if xterm _is_ installed, I would guess it is not in your $PATH. In which case all you need to do is amend your $PATH in the xstartup. A little digging in the installed packages should resolve this. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ remember, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom wisdom is not truth truth is not beauty beauty is not love love is not music music is the best - frank zappa -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
