Public bug reported: The GIO sublibrary in GLib has a function called prepend_terminal_to_vector, which prepare a command line by prepending it with a valid X terminal name before executing it.
The function as distributed in Glib first search for gnome-terminal before trying several well-known terminal application. I believe this is not acceptable in a distribution like Ubuntu, which supports the x-terminal-emulator alternative to set the preferred terminal to the user. As it is right now, gnome-panel simply ignores the chosen x-terminal-emulator as well as the GNOME preferred terminal application (and that is another bug!) I don't know any other application which expose this bug other than gnome-panel. Glib applications in Ubuntu should default to x-terminal- emulator before trying any other kind of terminal emulator. ** Affects: glib2.0 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- ignores x-terminal-emulator https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501192 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs