[PLUG] Jaunty upgrade

[Joe Pruett]

> The problem is that I can't get a terminal open in the GUI. Alt-F2 does
> nothing. I can get to the command line with Ctrl-Alt-F1, but when I
> give it the command 'gnome-panel &' it just announces "Cannot open
> display." Of course it can't, 'cause I'm not in the GUI.
>
> I need to get a terminal open in the GUI, but Alt-F2 doesn't work. The
> keyboard and mouse are otherwise working fine. I'm just staring at a
> completely blank screen. I don't like icons on my screen, so I turned
> off the desktop visibility a long time ago. Normally when I boot up I
> get a blank screen with the one Gnome panel that has all my stuff on it.
>
> It's troubling that Alt-F2 isn't working, because that may be
> symptomatic of a deeper problem than just a missing panel. I mean,
> suppose I do finally get a GUI terminal window open and try to launch
> an app from the command line. What if it won't launch? But I'm
> borrowing trouble here. First I need to get a GUI terminal up and then
> I can figure out what is going on.
>
> Does anyone know any other secret way to get a terminal window open
> besides Alt-F2?

have you tried:
gnome-terminal -display :0

or even just:

xterm -display :0