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galodoido

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qterminal black screen - I'm using xterm
« on: May 29, 2018, 09:24:36 am »
I'm using xterm, but decided to open qterminal and only a black screen is showed.
Any help ?
Thank you all

jornada720

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qterminal black screen - I'm using xterm
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2018, 10:03:23 am »
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I'm using xterm, but decided to open qterminal and only a black screen is showed.
Any help ?
Thank you all
You need a command interpreter. The default image did not set one. See:

https://github.com/gemian/gemini-keyboard-apps/wiki/DebianTP

Or just sudo apt install konsole for a much better terminal

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qterminal black screen - I'm using xterm
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2018, 10:09:24 am »
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I'm using xterm, but decided to open qterminal and only a black screen is showed.
Any help ?
Thank you all
You need a command interpreter. The default image did not set one. See:

https://github.com/gemian/gemini-keyboard-apps/wiki/DebianTP

Or just sudo apt install konsole for a much better terminal

ok. thank you so much.

galodoido

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« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2018, 07:51:19 pm »
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I'm using xterm, but decided to open qterminal and only a black screen is showed.
Any help ?
Thank you all
You need a command interpreter. The default image did not set one. See:

https://github.com/gemian/gemini-keyboard-apps/wiki/DebianTP

Or just sudo apt install konsole for a much better terminal

ok. thank you so much.

When I run qterminal in  xterm and with root privileges ( su qterminal ) I can see the prompt for qterminal .
If I only run qterminal ( in  xterm  ) I only see a black terminal with no prompt.

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« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2018, 06:27:38 am »
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When I run qterminal in  xterm and with root privileges ( su qterminal ) I can see the prompt for qterminal .
If I only run qterminal ( in  xterm  ) I only see a black terminal with no prompt.

That is because toot has a shell set already, /bin/sh

If you are not comfortable editing system files, if you install Konsole, you can specify a startup command in its settings. Just use /bin/bash as your startup command and then use it.

Even if you  don't do that, Konsole will still run /bin/sh for you on its own.

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« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2018, 06:32:05 am »
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When I run qterminal in  xterm and with root privileges ( su qterminal ) I can see the prompt for qterminal .
If I only run qterminal ( in  xterm  ) I only see a black terminal with no prompt.

That is because toot has a shell set already, /bin/sh

If you are not comfortable editing system files, if you install Konsole, you can specify a startup command in its settings. Just use /bin/bash as your startup command and then use it.

Even if you  don't do that, Konsole will still run /bin/sh for you on its own.
thank you so much.
Did  a fresh install , follow your tips and everything is fine.
Thank you so much  again