On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 14:04:22 -0400 William Hopkins <we.hopk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/08/11 at 07:26am, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 01:14:35 -0400 > > William Hopkins <we.hopk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On 06/07/11 at 10:04pm, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > x-terminal-emulator is a script stand-in that simply redirects the > > > > command line + options to gnome-terminal. > > > > > > > > if you try, for example, > > > > > > > > x-terminal-emulator --geometry=80x50 > > > > > > > > it doesn't seem to work. > > > > > > Please provide the output of `ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator` > > > > > > It is not necessarily a script, but a series of links which route to > > > whatever terminal emulator you currently have configured. > > > > > > > aha, I did this : > > > > which x-terminal-emulator > > > > and got this : > > > > /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator > > > > which is a script. > > I doubt it. Try ls -l /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator > you should see it is a link to /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator > which is then a link to a script. If you try to open any of them you'll just > be opening the final one, which is a script (gnome-terminal.wrapper). you are correct. > > I don't have gnome-terminal installed to assist in troubleshooting, though. > and the thing is - the script looks like it should work. of course why there is a perl script instead of a bash script which simply revokes the terminal with the command line args is unclear to me. Regardless, is this a bug ? Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110608183830.672b5...@windy.deldotd.com
