bad gnome-terminal

So I’ve been a long time proponent of GNOME and all, but I recently switched to awesome instead.

Even so I like gnome-terminal a bit too much, and decided to keep it around until I found a new terminal that doesn’t pull the rest of GNOME with it when I install it.

The problem

Enter emerge -uDNvat and all of a sudden gnome-terminal complains about Failed to contact GConf daemon; exiting.. So I ask around, people reply with something along the lines of “is gconfd-2 started”, “have you installed gconfd?” and “you dumb fuck, why do you use gnome-terminal when you’re not using gnome!”.

The solution

Seems in the end it was a version mismatch, I was using gnome-terminal 2.26.x and my gnome-light package was still 2.24.x. Downgraded gnome-terminal and all was well again.

P.S. I switched to ROXTerm instead, it’s almost a clone, without all the GConf bullshit, or pulling the rest of GNOME in.