I wrote: > I have tried several documented options to x-terminal-emulator, and I > find that they have absolutely no effect. For example: > > x-terminal-emulator --geometry 80x72 > x-terminal-emulator --title=WHY
OK, I solved the problem. Here's how I figured it out: patrick@laptop:~$ which x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator patrick@laptop:~$ ll /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Mar 4 2014 /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator -> /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator patrick@laptop:~$ ll /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Mar 4 2014 /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator -> /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper patrick@laptop:~$ ll /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1394 Jul 2 2008 /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper Then I looked at the /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper script and saw that it was a Perl script that looked for options with a *single* dash, and mapped them to the double-dash version, and passed those to the gnome-terminal program. For example, if you run: x-terminal-emulator -geometry 80x72 That ends up running: gnome-terminal --geometry 80x72 -- Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/543a73ca.2090...@rayservers.net
