gnome-terminal starts, but shows no window when launched from SSH

[Stefan Reich]

I am starting gnome-terminal on the command line (SSH). It displays nothing and does not show the terminal window. This is a v-server using VNC and Ubuntu 19.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.32.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-25.26-generic 5.0.18
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Sep 8 11:42:23 2019
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Stefan Reich (stefan-reich-maker-of-eye)]

Oh, also the windowless gnome-terminal process never exits until I press Ctrl+C.

[Stefan Reich (stefan-reich-maker-of-eye)]

Edit 2: $DISPLAY is correctly set to :1 (VNC). Other GUI programs start fine.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I think gnome-terminal has other odd dependencies like it needs to receive information about the login session and bus before it is willing to display. For this reason I would recommend 'xterm' instead if you need a working shell via ssh.

[Stefan Reich (stefan-reich-maker-of-eye)]

I think the lesson here might be to leave Ubuntu 19...

Thanks

On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 at 05:35, Daniel van Vugt <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I think gnome-terminal has other odd dependencies like it needs to
> receive information about the login session and bus before it is willing
> to display. For this reason I would recommend 'xterm' instead if you
> need a working shell via ssh.
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Confirmed
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - gnome-terminal starts, but shows no window
> + gnome-terminal starts, but shows no window when launched from SSH
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1843164
>
> Title:
> gnome-terminal starts, but shows no window when launched from SSH
>
> Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> I am starting gnome-terminal on the command line (SSH). It displays
> nothing and does not show the terminal window. This is a v-server
> using VNC and Ubuntu 19.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
> Package: gnome-terminal 3.32.1-1ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-25.26-generic 5.0.18
> Uname: Linux 5.0.0-25-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Sun Sep 8 11:42:23 2019
> SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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