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[Mate] falls back to xterm instead of using mate-terminal #120

Open oberon-manjaro opened 6 years ago

oberon-manjaro commented 6 years ago

I just noticed that manjaro-architect cannot be launched in the Mate live-session because mate tries to launch xterm, which isn't installed by default. Strange thing is that mate-terminal is indeed set as the default. Is this a bug in the Mate Desktop? The only way I can currently seem to find to launch setup with the launcher seems to use

terminal=false
Exec=mate-terminal -e 'sudo /usr/bin/setup'

For the already build 17.1.8 ISO I will just patch this up in the chroot, but somehow it would be good to find a proper solution for this. Is there a way to export $TERM ? My understanding is that this is kind of a no-go ... @Chrysostomus ? @Ste74 @philmmanjaro

oberon-manjaro commented 6 years ago

Right. So this seems to be an issue upstream is aware of, yet hasn't really managed to fix since 2012, hrrm. https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/issues/57 I guess we'll have to use some kind of a duct-tape solution with the architect-launcher... :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Ste74 commented 6 years ago

Maybe i have forgot this issue .. Good to see you already found it .. :wink:

Mate terminal is a strange app .. if you see in desktop-settings > script you see a little bash script to change the default color of terminal .. is the only way it to work because if i add the key into the .override file nothing change .. really odd :smirk:

oberon-manjaro commented 6 years ago

For now I have added a workaround in the desktop-items script.