Ubuntu 12.04. When I run MonoDevelop (IDE) using native shell, Unity, the MonoDevelop External Console that appears during debugging is gnome-terminal.
But if I use another window manager (for instance i3wm), MonoDevelop External Console is xterm.
Any workaround to make the IDE 'think' it is in GNOME environment and make it use gnome-terminal?
2 Answers
Way late, but same issue for me using awesomeWM. I just made a symlink called xterm in /usr/bin pointing to /usr/bin/<TERMINALOFCHOICE> (urxvt in my case).
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/urxvt /usr/bin/xtermWorking fine so far.
From the source code of monodevelop, we can find that if the environment variable GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID exists, gnome-terminal will be used. With this knowledge, you can run monodevelop using:
export GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=1 && monodevelop
