"Open in Terminal" not working for me [SOLVED]

[jerkins]

This is a trivial thing, but it's driving me nuts...

Environment:

Linux Mint 13 (Mate)
Normal user, with admin rights

Problem:

When I right click in a directory window I get the option "Open in Terminal", but when I select this, nothing happens - no terminal window opens.
Also, if I run an executable script with the "Run in Terminal" option, I don't get a terminal window either.

I know this used to work for me a while ago...

Basically, is this a known problem, and is it easy to fix? If not known, where can I go to see if any errors have been reported by this action?

Thanks,
David

[Flemur]

There's some enviroment variables ...

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$ env | grep erm
TERM=xterm
COLORTERM=gnome-terminal

...though when I "open terminal here" from a file browser, I get xfce-terminal from thunar and gnome-terminal from pcmanfm (in which you can define the terminal to open, which is by far the best way). My regular terminal is "terminator".

Try reinstalling your terminal application!

[jerkins]

Good call!

This is my setup:

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david@desktop ~ $ env | grep erm
TERM=xterm
COLORTERM=mate-terminal


But when I looked in the synaptic package manager xterm wasn't installed! I have no idea where that went, as it's not something I would uninstall intentionally...

Anyway - many thanks!