On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 07:32:19PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > Ok, I found the problem; while it is not a bug per se, it breaks other > programs, since it doesn't follow the expected behavior.
> xfce4-terminal forks to a new window at startup: this causes the > calling program -- in my case Sylpheed, but I'm sure this is true for > other mail clients as well -- to think the editing session is > finished, and to continue its tasks. Eh? This doesn't make any sense. It doesn't fork at all. > So it should at least provide a command line switch (like gvim's -f > option) to avoid forking, and this switch should be active by default > in the wrapper script, since that script it's AFAIK supposed to > provide an xterm-compatible interface, and xterm doesn't fork at > startup. Can you explain what you mean? forking at startup doesn't make sense to me since xfce4-terminal doesn't do that. I still think this is a bug in sylpheed. Simon -- ... "Cardinal Fang! Fetch... the comfy chair!" - Monty Python
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