On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:21:58 -0700, briand wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:29:10 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> > I verified again. gnome-terminal definitely uses the option and
>> > x-terminal-emulator definitely does not.
>> >
>> > This is all kind of silly.
>>
>> Hum... Jon is right. If we look at the perl script:
>>
>> sm01@stt008:~$ grep geometry /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
>> elsif ($opt eq '-geometry')
>> push(@args, "--geometry=$arg");
>>
>> The accepted argument is "-geometry" that is then converted into gnome-
>> terminal parlance ("--geometry=").
>>
>>
> There's still a bug, as the man page brings up the man page/options for
> gnome-terminal which uses "--geometry=".
I think there is no bug... let' see:
sm01@stt008:~$ grep help /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
elsif ($opt eq '-h' || $opt eq '--help')
push(@args, '--help');
The "help" command from "x-terminal-emulator" accepts both arguments, "-
h" and "--help") ;-)
> And here's the really interesting part, the x-terminal-emulator script:
>
> exec('gnome-terminal',@args);
>
> So x-terminal-emulator is using -option, but telling you the whole time
> that it's going to execute gnome-terminal, for which the man page is
> different from what it's actually doing.
Hum... I'm afraid I don't follow you here :-?
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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