05:25 <Guest20> I'm using sway, with foot as my terminal emulator and thunar as my file manager. My primary (and only) text editor is neovim. When trying to open a text file from thunar, I get and error "unable to find terminal required for application." in ~/.config/xfce4/helpers.rc, I have set TerminalEmulator=foot. How do I get it to open foot and neovim

05:25 <Guest20> properly? It worked fine with xfce4-terminal

05:59 <dnkl> Guest20: guessing you'll have better luck asking in an xfce channel. But if I'm to guess, there's a hardcoded list of "valid" terminal emulators somewhere in the xfce sources. And foot is likely not on it.

11:09 <marshallishere> hey

11:11 <marshallishere> I was trying emacs and, when I tried to open in the terminal, i got this error

11:11 <marshallishere> emacs: Terminal type foot-extra is not defined.

11:11 <marshallishere> If that is not the actual type of terminal you have,

11:11 <marshallishere> use the Bourne shell command 'TERM=...; export TERM' (C-shell:

11:11 <marshallishere> 'setenv TERM ...') to specify the correct type. It may be necessary

11:11 <marshallishere> to do 'unset TERMINFO' (C-shell: 'unsetenv TERMINFO') as well.

11:12 <marshallishere> when I start with TERM=foot it works

11:39 <dnkl> marshallishere: if you want to use TERM=foot-extra, you also have to install that terminfo. It's usually in a package called foot-terminfo, but may be something else depending on distro

11:44 <marshallishere> this package is already installed, it came with foot

11:44 <marshallishere> as a dependency

11:54 <dnkl> marshallishere: which distro?

11:59 <marshallishere> fedora 38

11:59 <marshallishere> I used emacs flatpak

12:00 <ayushnix> lol, emacs being inside flatpak probably isn't able to locate the foot-extra term info file

12:01 <dnkl> that'd be my guess too

12:01 <ayushnix> either give access to the foot-extra terminfo file by whitelisting it using flatpak or flatseal

12:02 <ayushnix> or use a proper rpm package for emacs

12:02 <ayushnix> assuming it exists on Fedora

12:02 <ayushnix> which I'm beginning to doubt these days

12:09 <marshallishere> it exists

12:10 <marshallishere> and emacs flatpak can access the whole filesystem

12:10 <marshallishere> filesystem=host permission is on by default