Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args
On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:40:03 -0700, briand wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 14:59:03 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> > 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.
Hum... Jon is right. If we look at the perl script:
sm01@stt008:~$ grep geometry /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
elsif ($opt eq '-geometry')
push(@args, "--geometry=$arg");
The accepted argument is "-geometry" that is then converted into gnome-
terminal parlance ("--geometry=").
> Why doesn't gnome-terminal have a preference setting for the size ?
Follow Jon's suggestion, it works that way.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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