On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 01:37:53PM +0000, Jon Dowland wrote:
> works:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xterm -e 'whiptail --msgbox "foo" 10 60'
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gnome-terminal -e 'whiptail --msgbox "foo" 10 60'
>
> doesn't:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ x-terminal-emulator -e 'whiptail --msgbox "foo" 10
> 60'
> $ readlink -f $(which x-terminal-emulator)
> /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper
>
> This results in a dialogue "There was an error creating the
> child process for this terminal".
I've just bumped into this again :( ironically whilst
debugging a program that triages BTS posts.
The following python snippet fails:
os.system("x-terminal-emulator -e \"bts show --mbox %s\"" % row)
In addition,
14:52:39$ x-terminal-emulator -e whiptail --msgbox "foo" 10 60
...works.
To be honest I think this behaviour makes more sense than
xterm's default (since it makes running commands with
whitespace in the title easier)... but it's still
inconsistent.
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