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gnome-terminal package

  1. Bug #348573
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 348573

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote : Re: Under System Tools, Root Terminal will NOT run. It crashes.

Thank you for your bug report. I'm assigning this to gnome-terminal, because x-terminal-emulator points to gnome-terminal by default, and I can confirm this behaviour. When running from the terminal, I see:

chr1s@chris-desktop:~$ gksu /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting.chr1s@chris-desktop:~$

If you want a root terminal, open your terminal emulator and run:

sudo -s -H