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Ok in a huff I was replacing alacritty with kitty, since kitty properly rendered zellij and alacritty didn't, and my tmux config is missing from my dotfiles so I didn't want to reconfigure tmux again... it's been one of those days. |
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However I was unable to open any terminal at all when I hit the usual ctrl+alt+t shortcut. |
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I even changed my default terminal application with |
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sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator |
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but that didn't do anything. |
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My first clue was to tail the syslog with sudo journalctl -f. This showed the warning that gsd-media-keys was logging a warning that alacritty wasn't on $PATH. |
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So I looked at what files gsd-media-keys had open: |
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$ lsof -p 28857 | less |
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A bunch of binary files, and... |
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/home/razzi/.config/dconf/user |
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Aha! A binary file that had alacritty mentioned in it. I knew I was close, I looked around how to reset dconf config and found https://askubuntu.com/questions/56313/how-do-i-reset-gnome-to-the-defaults |
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Sure enough, what worked for me was to just remove that file... even though I ended up backing it up to my ~/hack directory, just in case removing it made things worse. |
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But it recreated that file, no mention of alacritty at all. And kitty opens with c-a-t ;) |
Latest revision as of 17:06, 3 October 2023
Ok trying to get in to my digitalocean instance from my ubuntu boot, here's my ubuntu public key:
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAICIALcs/MuOwfOeoLl3+caGT8SWlfP81T8yvODHj9MBK razzi@razzi-framework
Fast link roll up
https://github.com/ziglang/zig
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/qemu-img-diff/
Ok in a huff I was replacing alacritty with kitty, since kitty properly rendered zellij and alacritty didn't, and my tmux config is missing from my dotfiles so I didn't want to reconfigure tmux again... it's been one of those days.
However I was unable to open any terminal at all when I hit the usual ctrl+alt+t shortcut.
I even changed my default terminal application with
sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator
but that didn't do anything.
My first clue was to tail the syslog with sudo journalctl -f. This showed the warning that gsd-media-keys was logging a warning that alacritty wasn't on $PATH.
So I looked at what files gsd-media-keys had open:
$ lsof -p 28857 | less
A bunch of binary files, and...
/home/razzi/.config/dconf/user
Aha! A binary file that had alacritty mentioned in it. I knew I was close, I looked around how to reset dconf config and found https://askubuntu.com/questions/56313/how-do-i-reset-gnome-to-the-defaults
Sure enough, what worked for me was to just remove that file... even though I ended up backing it up to my ~/hack directory, just in case removing it made things worse.
But it recreated that file, no mention of alacritty at all. And kitty opens with c-a-t ;)