"Open in Terminal" option in LMDE Xcfe stopped working

[wb53tx]

All of a sudden the "Open in Terminal" command stopped working and I'm so frustrated I'm about to do a complete re-install to fix it!

If I right click on the LMDE Desktop I have an option to "Open in Terminal" which when selected should open a terminal, used to open a terminal, but no longer opens a terminal window.

Similarly, if I am in the file browser and right click on an empty space between icons I have an option to "Open in terminal" which used to do just that, but now does not.

Solutions?

If I reinstall, I'm going with LMDE Gnome this time around.

[altair4]

This may sound silly but run the same command that the Thunar custom action runs in a terminal and see if it brings up another terminal or gives you an error message:

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exo-open --working-directory /etc --launch TerminalEmulator

[wb53tx]

UPDATE - I just went ahead with the re-install. This time I'm running LMDE Gnome, although I would still like a solution to the above problem, as it's not the first time this has happened to me.