Bug#457846: gnome-terminal.wrapper: problem with a particular command

[Jon Dowland]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 01:37:53PM +0000, Jon Dowland wrote:
> works:
>     jon at qusp:~$ xterm -e  'whiptail --msgbox "foo" 10 60'
>     jon at qusp:~$ gnome-terminal -e  'whiptail --msgbox "foo" 10 60'
> 
> doesn't:
>     jon at qusp:~$ x-terminal-emulator -e 'whiptail --msgbox "foo" 10 60'
>     $ readlink -f $(which x-terminal-emulator)
>     /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper
> 
> This results in a dialogue "There was an error creating the
> child process for this terminal".

I've just bumped into this again :( ironically whilst
debugging a program that triages BTS posts.

The following python snippet fails:

	os.system("x-terminal-emulator -e \"bts show --mbox %s\"" % row)

In addition,

14:52:39$ x-terminal-emulator -e whiptail --msgbox "foo" 10 60

...works.

To be honest I think this behaviour makes more sense than
xterm's default (since it makes running commands with
whitespace in the title easier)... but it's still
inconsistent.