gnome-terminal doesn't start

[malimlun]

Hello everyone,

I am writing here because I have an issue to solve, I tried by myself without any results.

Yesterday I installed gentoo 4.19.82, in 40 hours because I had few problems, a kernel panic, grub, netflex..
anyway everything went well and I decided to use gnome openRC as DE (5 hours compiling..)

It seems quite smooth, fast and every applications start except Terminal, when I click on the icon appears on the upper menu, it loads and doesn't show off.

Gnome-Terminal is installed

emerge --search gnome-terminal

x11-terms/gnome-terminal 3.30.3
x11-terms/mate-terminal 1.22.0

I tried:

sudo dbus-launch gnome-terminal
#Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display:

I don't know how to fix this problem.

Thank you in advance.

[mrbassie]

[malimlun]

I am sorry ,

I forgot to tell you,

I use

tty1 Ctrl-Alt F1

to come back to gnome Alt F7

[fedeliallalinea]

But you want to start only gnome terminal or you want complete gnome as desktop environment?
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[mrbassie]

That wouldn't work anyway.

Try emerging xterm

[malimlun]

Thank you for the replies,

with :

[fedeliallalinea]

[malimlun]

ok I came back to Gnome

I have now UXTerm and Xterm applications

UXterms once opened says in a pop-up:

[malimlun]

[Hu]

How exactly are you now trying to start gnome-terminal? Describe it as if you want someone else to sit at your computer and do the steps for you. If you're trying to start it from a context where $DISPLAY is unset, it probably won't work.

[Juippisi]

First I thought it'd be some xorg-wayland thing, but I remember running to same error after making a switch from systemd to openrc and it was due to locale issue in the end. So try fixing your locales (in env, or term) and try again?

Something like

[malimlun]

[malimlun]

Sorry I wasn't looged as root

[fturco]

Running gnome-terminal as root is not a good idea...

[fturco]

Also, how do you start GNOME? Do you use the GDM display manager or something else?

[malimlun]

[malimlun]

One question:

when I was installing Gentoo in livecd,
I set a root password with passwd
after
I created an user with adduser, with another password

is it correct? I have a password for root, accessing by the command "su"
I have another password for the user account created. I use it also to log into the DE on start.

I think I did something with the locale, profile or password

[fturco]

Having two different passwords for root and a non-root user is OK. Logging into GNOME as a non-root user is also OK.

Please post the output of the following commands:

[malimlun]

[fturco]

What's inside your /etc/env.d/02locale file?

Edit #1: you should also enable the following line in your /etc/locale.gen file:

[malimlun]

[fturco]

It seems your /etc/env.d/02locale lacks any Italian locales, but the "locale" command still shows them... Where did you configure them?

[malimlun]

I don't remember,
few during the installations
few in the settings in Gnome.

Do I add something in the file?

[fturco]

On my system I usually configure my locales directly in /etc/env.d/02locale, but there are no other users on my system.
Do other people use your system besides you? Do they have different language preferences?

Anyway the most important thing in my opinion is adding the Italian locale in /etc/locale.gen (as I wrote before).

In the future, I'd also like to suggest you to write down all commands you issue and all configuration file lines you modify while you're installing and configuring your Gentoo system, especially while you're still learning. This can be very helpful later. You can either choose to write everything down on paper, or use some digital text editor, depending on your preferences.

[malimlun]