Re: blackbox - menus and themes

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br> wrote:

Can't help with your first problem, but:

> Also, some applications in the menus are text-based, but won't start
> when I click on them; on the console, I get this everytime I try to
> run a text-based app from the menus:
>
>$ Error on option -T: unknown option.
>Run 'x-terminal-emulator --help' to see a full list of available command
>line options.
>
> Ok... Now, dlocate -S x-terminal-emulator  didn't find
> anything. Running it starts powershell.

It wouldn't: x-terminal-emulator is an alternative (see 'man
update-alternatives') pointing to one of various things like xterm,
rxvt, Eterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, powershell, and so on. Each of
these should support some basic set of xterm's options, but not all of
them do. There was a conversation about it on debian-devel a few months
back.

There's an open bug (#74144) against powershell pointing out that it's
broken in this respect. Until it's fixed, I can only suggest that you
install something else as your x-terminal-emulator using
'update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator'.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]