The game (SDV 1.4.1) doesn't start, in terminal you only see

$ ./start.sh                                                                                                   
Running Stardew Valley                                                                                                                                 
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/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator

Thus, the terminal detection in game/StardewValley apparently does not work anymore (did in SMAPI 2). After installing xterm it worked again as it falls back to this in case of problems.

This means, installing xterm is a workaround, but there seems to be a problem detecting installed terminals underlying.

Terminal compatibility is the eternal struggle with supporting Linux; we've been iterating on the launcher script for almost two years. At this point I'm tempted to just add 'install xterm' as a step in the Linux install guide.

Can you come ask in #modding on the Stardew Valley Discord so we can run some tests? I just found the fix for an issue that affects Arch Linux in SMAPI 3.0.0; hopefully that'll fix it for you too, or if not we'll run some tests to track down the issue.

I would prefer to rather get some diff and test it than joining the Discord because this way I can test when I have time to do so. The linux mint system is someone else's system, not mine. I am using Arch 😉

Sure. First, can you see if the latest launcher for the upcoming release works?

Sure. First, can you see if the latest launcher for the upcoming release works?

Thanks, but it does not help (I did apply the change and removed xterm -> did not work anymore).

The change itself looks totally fine to me though. Maybe I just try to add the terminal used in Mint (not sure if it is Mate or Cinnamon, will have a look) to the list of known-to-work terminals and check if it does work. What do you think?

Sure. The launch script only needs to handle preferred terminals, or terminals which don't work correctly through x-terminal-emulator. Based on the output above, looks like whichever terminal is being used is the latter.

Fixed in #678.