Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

[<briand@aracnet.com>]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 01:14:35 -0400
William Hopkins <we.hopkins@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/07/11 at 10:04pm, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > x-terminal-emulator is a script stand-in that simply redirects the command line + options to gnome-terminal.
> > 
> > if you try, for example,
> > 
> > x-terminal-emulator --geometry=80x50
> > 
> > it doesn't seem to work.
> 
> Please provide the output of `ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator`
> 
> It is not necessarily a script, but a series of links which route to whatever terminal emulator you currently have configured.
> 

aha, I did this :

which x-terminal-emulator 

and got this :

/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator

which is a script.

here's the output of ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Jun 12  2009 /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator -> /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper