Latest Update Problems - Solved

[djohnston]

Tex,

I found the problem some have been having with top, htop, mc, etc. The LXTerminal is acting up. I've tried tilda, xterm, guake, and XFCE's terminal. They all work normally and will launch the three examples given. lxterminal won't. It will launch locate, find, set, etc. When I run htop, I get Error opening terminal: unknown. When I run top or mc, I get TERM environment variable not.set

So, lxterminal is upset about not being the default terminal? I dunno. I can't figure out where the problem is. I looked all through ~/.config/lx-- folders and /usr/share/lxterminal/lxterminal.conf file and found nothing. But the problem is definitely with lxterminal.

[Texstar]

Tex,

I found the problem some have been having with top, htop, mc, etc. The LXTerminal is acting up. I've tried tilda, xterm, guake, and XFCE's terminal. They all work normally and will launch the three examples given. lxterminal won't. It will launch locate, find, set, etc. When I run htop, I get Error opening terminal: unknown. When I run top or mc, I get TERM environment variable not.set

So, lxterminal is upset about not being the default terminal? I dunno. I can't figure out where the problem is. I looked all through ~/.config/lx-- folders and /usr/share/lxterminal/lxterminal.conf file and found nothing. But the probably is definitely with lxterminal.

I see the duplicate synaptic entries but so far I have not been able to duplicate this lxterminal error. I can log into lxde and open lxterminal then run the above referenced applications. I will do a clean install from the lxde cd and go from there.

Tex

[djohnston]

I got lxterminal working by following instructions here:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,74200.0/topicseen.html

I added

TERM=linux
export TERM

to ~/.bash_profile. I didn't restart X, so first attempt in lxterminal didn't work. From lxterminal, I issued the same 2 commands, and now htop, top, and mc are working. According to Neal, system-wide changes would require same two lines in /etc/skel/.bash_profile & /root/.bash_profile.

From LXDE menu, More Applications > Terminals > Root Terminal calls up lxterminal, with same problems, until the TERM environment variable is set. I edited all three files, rebooted, and now lxterminal is behaving.

How or why this is happening is beyond me.

[weirdwolf]

Add these two line to your .bash_profile:

TERM=linux
export TERM

Well ok then, Thanks qbrick! Did it and needed to log off or reboot (cant remember) but then all was good for top and htop. Saw it mentioned elsewhere and then here so I figured (hoped) that should do it,  whether or not that just treated the symptom or the cause, it still worked

On a side note, after the last update both top and conky report the same number of processes/tasks now , but top shows 1 running and conky shows 0 ...nothing I'm going to worry about.

[timeth]

Add these two line to your .bash_profile:

TERM=linux
export TERM

Thanks.     This fixed my lxterminal issues too.

[Neal ManBear]

An lxterminal update should be coming through soon.

[weirdwolf]

Updated the other day and that seems to have fixed the lxterminal problem. I removed the "TERM=linux
export TERM" from my bash profile just to see and it still works Thanks to all involved !
Not sure what to make of the Synaptic icons, but if that's all they are then no biggie...

[Neal ManBear]

Look in /usr/share/applications for Synaptic Package Manager. There will be 2 copies of this .desktop file. Open the one with the red 's' icon and make sure these 2 lines are at or near the end of the file --

OnlyShowIn=KDE;
NotShowIn=LXDE;Gnome;XFCE;

If not, then add them.

[uncleV]

Why not simply delete the synaptic-kde.desktop file?

[Neal ManBear]

Your choice. Either should work.

[uncleV]

I just deleted it with no problem.

Edit: Thanks, Neal!

[djohnston]

I just deleted it with no problem.

Worked for me, too. Thanks, Neal.

[weirdwolf]

Your choice. Either should work.

I did both, delete one and add the line to the other.
Thanks Neal and uV