Xfce4-terminal not working - gnome

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Hi. I’m new to Linux and I’m currently using Manjaro. I installed xfce4-terminal using pacman :
pacman -S xfce4-terminal
The installation worked fine but when I try to launch the xfce4 terminal, the cursor shows that it is loading the terminal but it doesn’t open. The gnome-terminal is working fine, but I wanted to use xfce4 terminal for its customizability.

 OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64
 Kernel: 5.9.16-1-MANJARO
 Shell: zsh 5.8
 DE: GNOME 3.38.3
 Terminal: gnome-terminal

is there anything i can do to make this work or should i just stick to gnome-terminal ? tyia.

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… and what get’s printed in gnome-terminal
when you use it to start
xfce4-terminal
?

Was your system up to date (updated) when you used that command to install it?

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Good day, Sir. Yes, my system is up do date. Here is the error the terminal returns :

xfce4-terminal: error while loading shared libraries: libxfconf-0.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Thanks for this I can try to look up what can I do.

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very likely this:

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Yes Sir, it is up to date.
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 167.2 KiB 808 KiB/s 00:00 [###################################] 100%
extra 1983.7 KiB 8.31 MiB/s 00:00 [###################################] 100%
community 6.5 MiB 7.07 MiB/s 00:01 [###################################] 100%
multilib 181.3 KiB 3.28 MiB/s 00:00 [###################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
there is nothing to do

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That is a very strange error then, because:
that library which is not found in your system, according to the error message,
is present in my fully updated system

My DE is Xfce - maybe that makes a difference - but it shouldn’t.

ldd /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal | grep xfconf
returns:
libxfconf-0.so.3 => /usr/lib/libxfconf-0.so.3 (0x00007f8a51b9d000)

pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libxfconf-0.so.3
shows, that this is in “xfconf”:
/usr/lib/libxfconf-0.so.3 is owned by xfconf 4.16.0-1

which, strangely, probably didn’t get installed for you when you installed xfce4-terminal, because it isn’t a dependency of xfce4-terminal, even though it should be

Installing xfconf should help - at least it provides that library and the terminal should then work

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Thank you good Sir, it fixed the error.

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