Terminal on XFCE closes automatically ... :(

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Hello,

Tomorrow I"m starting a new job, and decided to give a try to FreeBSD. I've been on Linux until now. And because I don't have experience with FreeBSD - the whole weekend I've played with it on VirtualBox. So - many things are now clear, solved some problems, but one of them is still very confusing:

When I run the terminal in XFCE - then the terminal closes automatically. This is maybe the most important thing because I stay most of the time in the terminal.

So - can you help me? I found a similar thread - http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=10328&highlight=xfce+terminal+closes - but I don't have such folder Terminal in .config in the home directory. Created it - no result. Created the file inside - terminalrc - still no result.

Thanks in advance,
Peter

PS: Actually - how realistic is the learning of FreeBSD on the VirtualBox? Because I hope all these things I learn help me when I install it on my new machine tomorrow.
 
That thread says it isn't anything to do with xfce. Does xterm work? Look for settings that have been changed from their defaults in /etc/rc.conf or shell startup.
 
I had some trouble with both Gnome and KDE where the terminal would just exit as soon as I opened it. I forget where I read it, but this worked for me:

In your home folder, edit .shrc and comment out the line that says
set -o emacs
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bigtoque said:
set -o emacs
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Thank you very much, this helped me out :)

PS: anyway, I had to install Skype at work, which happened to be much harder than on Linux, and also - the time for setting up a new machine was too little, so I installed PC-BSD :) I wanted to move to BSD after all, although it's a little risky for a first day in a new job :)
 
I got the same problem on my Virtualbox, tried to mkdir Terminal, tried to comment that line, even mv .cshrc .cshrc.bak and mv .shrc .shrc.bak do not solve as well. It runs successfully under root though. Also, if I try to open multiple xfce4-terminal instances, one of them some how (sort of lag?) does not close.
 
Just keep hammering the button, eventually it will stay open. Though it only seemed to occur on my Nvidia based system long ago. I haven't seen it since.

Don't know if that helps you, but it did for me back in the day.
 
zspider said:
Just keep hammering the button, eventually it will stay open. Though it only seemed to occur on my Nvidia based system long ago. I haven't seen it since.

Don't know if that helps you, but it did for me back in the day.
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Strange workaround and behaviour indeed. I use ATI graphics, but I don't think that matters: obviously, [dle]freebsd[/del] FreeBSD does not use my graphics natively.

BTW, gnome-terminal works well, but I more like the Xfce version (minimalistic enough, functional enough). Maybe it will work without Virtualbox.
 
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