Gnome terminal doesn't start from unity

Question

When I try to start gnome terminal from launcher, nothing happens. except terminal Icon starts glowing for a few seconds and then nothing ....

But when I try to open it through urxvt, It starts without any kind of error or output.

@BlueManCZ Tried it in xterm and xfce4 terminal. no difference — A.Esm.T, Jun 18 '17 at 12:05
@BlueManCZ no difference ! no there was not any error message in urxvt nor in xterm or xfce terminal. — A.Esm.T, Jun 18 '17 at 12:55
@BlueManCZ I just started it in i3wm. it worked perfectly. so the problem is unity (probably) — A.Esm.T, Jun 18 '17 at 12:56
Yes, apparently. But I'm not Unity specialist, so I can't help. — BlueManCZ, Jun 18 '17 at 12:58
Wait, it starts successful from all terminals, but from Ubuntu dash not? — BlueManCZ, Jun 18 '17 at 13:01
@BlueManCZYes. it opens from xterm and from i3+dmenu. and xterm does open from unity — A.Esm.T, Jun 18 '17 at 13:09
Install alacarte, find gnome-terminal launcher, open properties and tell me a command. — BlueManCZ, Jun 18 '17 at 14:02
@BlueManCZ it is "/usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server". and when I run it it gives this error "Failed to register: Unable to acquire bus name 'org.gnome.Terminal'" when I set it to "/usr/bin/gnome-terminal" it starts fine. — A.Esm.T, Jun 18 '17 at 14:14
You must have an incorrect local copy of the gnome-terminal.desktop file. See dupe. In your case, step 1 should do ;) — Jacob Vlijm, Jun 18 '17 at 16:13

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 18 '17 at 15:23

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There can be problem with launcher command which starts aplication.

Install alacarte, run it, find gnome-terminal launcher, open properties and insert command which work for you into input for command. In your case gnome-terminal or /usr/bin/gnome-terminal. Than save changes.

answered Jun 18 '17 at 15:23

BlueManCZ

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it worked. but I really want to solve the real problem. what is wrong with gnome-terminal-server ?? why it doesn't work? – A.Esm.T Jun 18 '17 at 16:09
I don't use Ubuntu, but Debian. Here I have Gnome and in my gnome-terminal launcher there is default command gnome-terminal. Command gnome-terminal-server or any package with this name doesn't exist here. So you should wait for some Ubuntu guru. – BlueManCZ Jun 18 '17 at 16:33
@A.Esm.T gnome-terminal-server is the process name, gnome-terminal the command to run gnome-terminal. – Jacob Vlijm Jun 18 '17 at 17:47

Gnome terminal doesn't start from unity

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