{"id":12456,"date":"2023-05-04T15:52:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T13:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/?p=12456"},"modified":"2023-05-04T16:01:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:01:16","slug":"ubuntu-gnome-terminal-or-terminator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2023\/05\/04\/ubuntu-gnome-terminal-or-terminator\/","title":{"rendered":"ubuntu: gnome-terminal or terminator?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/341272\/is-there-an-alternative-to-gnome-terminal\">https:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/341272\/is-there-an-alternative-to-gnome-terminal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My new ThinkPad &#8220;broke&#8221; \u2013 neither internal nor external video worked any longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got my SSD moved from the broken ThinkPad to another ThinkPad. (Yes, we considered the downsides.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">gnome-terminal wouldn&#8217;t want to start any more. Error message:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:\/org\/gnome\/Terminal\/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/51377727\/starting-gnome-terminal-results-in-error-constructing-proxy#51378566\">https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/51377727\/starting-gnome-terminal-results-in-error-constructing-proxy#51378566<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Possibly the SSD or the file system on it is damaged. For the time being I don&#8217;t want to care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I started using <em>terminator<\/em> instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I has a few nice features as well:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>splitting a tab horizontally<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>splitting a tab vertically<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new ThinkPad &#8220;broke&#8221; \u2013 neither internal nor external video worked any longer. I got my SSD moved from the broken ThinkPad to another ThinkPad. (Yes, we considered the downsides.) gnome-terminal wouldn&#8217;t want to start any more. Error message: Possibly the SSD or the file system on it is damaged. For the time being I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[306,663],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-ubuntu"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-3eU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12460,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions\/12460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}