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-====== Frequently Asked Questions ====== 
  
-The intent of this section is to collect the quite numerous frequently asked question that relate to working with Terminal, or even terminal emulators in general. If you know of a question that's missing from this page, please [[https://bugzilla.xfce.org|file a request]]. 
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-? Terminal complains about "Unable to start terminal server: Unable to connect to D-BUS message daemon", what can I do? 
-! Terminal tries to reduce the number of running instances by establishing a D-BUS service that handles all terminal windows. The message above tells you that Terminal wasn't able to connect to the D-BUS session message daemon and register a service. This is just a warning, you can use the terminal without the D-BUS service feature as well. 
-! To start the D-BUS session message daemon when you login to your X session, either modify your xinitrc file and change the line xfce4-session to ''dbus-launch xfce4-session'' or use ''dbus-launch startxfce4'' to start Xfce instead. If you don't use Xfce, please look at the documentation of your desktop environment on how to enable the D-BUS session daemon. 
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-? Home and End keys don't work in Terminal, what's wrong? 
-! This problem is actually a bug in vte, the terminal widget used by Terminal. A patch for vte that fixes the problem is available [[http://lunar-linux.org/lunar/patches/vte-0.11.11-termcap.patch|here]] (this patch was created with version 0.11.11 of vte, it may not work with other versions). Thanks to Auke Kok for this patch.