Comment 9 for bug 615487

Thanks @Gabor Karsay (for the tip to add the PPA to the sources list) and @moonbeam (for linking my question to this bug report (although in my case even in the task manager there was no trace of a running application!)). I added the PPA to my sources list, did an update and now it's working - clicking on an application (that has to run in terminal) immediately starts the terminal and the application in it. :)

Best regards and thanks again!
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