Package: x11-common
Version: 1:7.7+7
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
While debugging a recent upgrade to jessie, I tried logging in with
the failsafe option. This apparently just starts up a terminal
specifically the terminal currently set in `x-terminal-emulator`. In
my particular case, `x-terminal-emulator` was set to the terminator
program.
However, in this instance, this login attempt exited with an error,
namely:
x-terminal-emulator: error: Additional unexpected arguments found: ['+1+1']
As Gilles on Unix & Linux Stack Exchange Chat (unix.stackexchange.com)
explained to me, the problem was that
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/20x11-common_process-args assumes that
x-terminal-emulator understands -geometry.
See the following extract from /etc/X11/Xsession.d/20x11-common_process-args:
# Failsafe session was requested.
if has_option allow-failsafe; then
if [ -e /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator ]; then
if [ -x /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator ]; then
exec x-terminal-emulator -geometry +1+1
However, terminator doesn't understand this option.
terminator -geometry +1+1
Usage: terminator [options]
terminator: error: Additional unexpected arguments found: ['+1+1']
Though it does understand
terminator --geometry +1+1
However, Policy (11.8.3 Packages providing a terminal emulator) only
says
To be an x-terminal-emulator, a program must:
Be able to emulate a DEC VT100 terminal, or a compatible terminal.
Support the command-line option -e command, which creates a new
terminal window[106] and runs the specified command, interpreting the
entirety of the rest of the command line as a command to pass straight
to exec, in the manner that xterm does.
Support the command-line option -T title, which creates a new terminal
window with the window title title.
So this looks like a bug.
Regards, Faheem
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500,
'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages x11-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1
x11-common recommends no packages.
x11-common suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
x11-common/xwrapper/allowed_users: Console Users Only
x11-common/xwrapper/actual_allowed_users: console
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