On 08/01/2022 12:00, David Wright wrote:
On Fri 07 Jan 2022 at 14:46:04 (-0500), Lee wrote:
right - another unknown. There's a /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper
that starts off with
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
#
# Terminal.wrapper - Debian terminal wrapper script
which I don't know who calls or even why it exists.
You can read it: it appears to shuffle some of the arguments,
like '-display' → '--default-display', and eliminate others,
like '-fn'/'-fg'/'-bg'. Perhaps the options that the DE puts
into the call don't match what the binary expects to be given,
or it's pretending to be a different program.
At the end, it execs a bare 'xfce4-terminal' with the new
argument list, so I presume that would reconsult the $PATH.
A number of terminals have ".wrapper" scripts to make them match the specification of
Debian's x-terminal-emulator. In particular -e <command line> often needs massaging to
fit some terminal's own peculiarities.
~$ update-alternatives --list x-terminal-emulator
/usr/bin/lxterminal
/usr/bin/urxvt
/usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper
The wrappered version is set as the debian alternative.
--
John
