On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:41:28AM +0100, Jonathan Amery wrote: > It doesn't interpret the command line after the -e option the same > way that xterm does: > > xterm -e less .bash_profile > > runs `less .bash_profile' in a new terminal window whereas > > gnome-terminal -e less .bash_profile > > runs `less' in a new terminal window (and doesn't appear to do > anything useful with the .bash_profile argument at all). > > gnome-terminal -e 'less .bash_profile' works of course, but that > doesn't work for xterm. Okay, I get it. Yes, clarification is required. I guess we have to mandate that -e be treated as the last x-terminal-emulator option, eh? -- G. Branden Robinson | Never attribute to malice that Debian GNU/Linux | which can be adequately explained branden@debian.org | by stupidity. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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