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

[<briand@aracnet.com>]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 14:59:03 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:04:02 -0700, briand wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> > bug ?
> 
> Hum... here (lenny) neither works (gnomer-terminal launches but the 
> parameter is ignored). 
> 

I verified again.  gnome-terminal definitely uses the option and x-terminal-emulator definitely does not.

This is all kind of silly.

Why doesn't gnome-terminal have a preference setting for the size ?

Brian