Remotely running gnome-terminal in Ubuntu 18.04 either crashes or opens a terminal on the host serving the terminal
Oct 29, 2018
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Question / Issue:
We recently updated several Ubuntu PCs from 16.04 to 18.04.
When using 16.04, we ran gnome-terminal via Windows 10 using Cygwin (ssh -Y hostname) in order to get a Linux shell for a remote Linux machine on our Windows 10 PC.
Since upgrading to 18.04, we either get a crash:
"# Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached"
OR
the terminal opens up on the Ubuntu machine serving the gnome-terminal.
Responses:
Date: Oct. 29, 2018
Author: Mind Chasers
Comment:
We find that we can launch gnome-terminal on our Windows 10 boxes via Cygwin if we launch it via dbus-launch:
$ dbus-launch gnome-terminal
This works with several recently upgraded Ubuntu 18.04 PCs.
We're using a Cygwin terminal on Windows 10 and connect to our Linux PC via "ssh -Y <hostname>"
We find that this also works with XQuartz 2.7.11 on MacOS.
