Bug#693894: gnome-terminal: wrapper script does not handle -x option

[Simon McVittie]

reassign 693894 nautilus-open-terminal
retitle 693894 runs x-terminal-emulator with non-Policy option "-x"
tags 693894 - patch
thanks

On 21/11/12 14:22, Michal Sojka wrote:
> gnome-terminal.wrapper does not handler -x option. This option is used by
> nautilus-open-terminal package; in my case it runs "x-terminal-emulator -x
> ...".

nautilus-open-terminal shouldn't be doing that, so I'm reassigning this
bug there. x-terminal-emulator isn't guaranteed to support the -x
option, only -e and -T (Policy 11.8.3). In particular, -x won't work if
your x-terminal-emulator points to xterm. As noted in #457846 and
#488974, gnome-terminal's -x option is a nicer command-line interface
than xterm -e, but it's non-standard.

If n-o-t can't be adapted to work with any Policy-compliant
x-terminal-emulator, hard-coding gnome-terminal (the real one, not the
wrapper) would also work, with some loss of functionality (inability to
launch a configured non-GNOME terminal that happens to support -x in a
way compatible with gnome-terminal).

Michal, which version of nautilus-open-terminal are you running?

Regards,
    S