On 06/08/11 at 07:26am, briand@aracnet.com wrote: > 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. I doubt it. Try ls -l /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator you should see it is a link to /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator which is then a link to a script. If you try to open any of them you'll just be opening the final one, which is a script (gnome-terminal.wrapper). I don't have gnome-terminal installed to assist in troubleshooting, though. -- Liam
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