Frequently asked questions
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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 file a request.

### 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.

### 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 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.

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