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

[<briand@aracnet.com>]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 14:04:22 -0400
William Hopkins <we.hopkins@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).

you are correct.

> 
> I don't have gnome-terminal installed to assist in troubleshooting, though.
> 

and the thing is - the script looks like it should work.

of course why there is a perl script instead of a bash script which simply revokes the terminal with the command line args is unclear to me.

Regardless, is this a bug ?

Brian