Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-15 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/15/11 at 01:39pm, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 07:47:09PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > I would file a minor bug to add something like this in the manpage: > > I think a separate manpage — which describes the command-line options that > gnome-terminal.wrapper accepts — wou

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 07:47:09PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > I would file a minor bug to add something like this in the manpage: I think a separate manpage — which describes the command-line options that gnome-terminal.wrapper accepts — would be more appropriate, for the following reasons:

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:47:09 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 11 iun 11, 15:40:36, Camaleón wrote: >> >> As I see, "gnome-terminal" and "gnome-terminal.wrapper" are different >> things aimed to different usages. But hey, if you think there is >> something wrong or that can be improved, just

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 11 iun 11, 15:40:36, Camaleón wrote: > > As I see, "gnome-terminal" and "gnome-terminal.wrapper" are different > things aimed to different usages. But hey, if you think there is > something wrong or that can be improved, just go ahead with the bug > report. I would file a minor bug to a

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 08:13:20 -0700, briand wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:32:16 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: > >> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:18:35 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: >> >> >> > Of course. gnome-terminal.wrapper is created solely for >> > x-terminal-emulator use by gnome-core/gnome-ter

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-11 Thread briand
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:32:16 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:18:35 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > > > > Of course. gnome-terminal.wrapper is created solely for > > x-terminal-emulator use by gnome-core/gnome-terminal maintainer > > Christian Marillat, and it tries to pre

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-11 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:18:35 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/09/11 at 05:31pm, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:46:54 +0100, Dom wrote: >> > I think that as the wrapper is translating x-terminal options to >> > gnome-terminal equivalents, it shouldn't pass through "-h" or >> > "--he

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-10 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/09/11 at 05:31pm, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:46:54 +0100, Dom wrote: > > I think that as the wrapper is translating x-terminal options to > > gnome-terminal equivalents, it shouldn't pass through "-h" or "--help", > > but should display a basic usage page for the options that *i

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-09 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:46:54 +0100, Dom wrote: > On 09/06/11 17:32, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:58:02 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:21:58 -0700, briand wrote: >>> There's still a bug, as the man page brings up the man page/options for gnome-terminal w

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-09 Thread Dom
On 09/06/11 17:32, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:58:02 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:21:58 -0700, briand wrote: There's still a bug, as the man page brings up the man page/options for gnome-terminal which uses "--geometry=". I think there is no bug... let' see: sm0

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-09 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:58:02 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:21:58 -0700, briand wrote: > >> There's still a bug, as the man page brings up the man page/options for >> gnome-terminal which uses "--geometry=". > > I think there is no bug... let' see: > > sm01@stt008:~$ grep help

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-09 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:21:58 -0700, briand wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:29:10 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: >> > 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 w

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-09 Thread briand
On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:29:10 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:40:03 -0700, briand wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 14:59:03 + (UTC) Camaleón > > wrote: > > > >> > if you try, for example, > >> > > >> > x-terminal-emulator --geometry=80x50 > >> > > >> > it doesn't seem t

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-09 Thread briand
On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 10:24:14 +0100 Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 10:04:02PM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > x-terminal-emulator --geometry=80x50 > > > > it doesn't seem to work. > > x-terminal-emulator should implement the 'xterm' command-line arguments. xterm > doesn't accep

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-09 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:40:03 -0700, briand wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 14:59:03 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: > >> > if you try, for example, >> > >> > x-terminal-emulator --geometry=80x50 >> > >> > it doesn't seem to work. >> > >> > bug ? >> >> Hum... here (lenny) neither works (gnomer-term

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 10:04:02PM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > x-terminal-emulator --geometry=80x50 > > it doesn't seem to work. x-terminal-emulator should implement the 'xterm' command-line arguments. xterm doesn't accept --geometry=80x50: Doesn't work: x-terminal-emulator --geom

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-08 Thread briand
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 14:59:03 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:04:02 -0700, briand wrote: > > > x-terminal-emulator is a script stand-in that simply redirects the > > command line + options to gnome-terminal. > > > > if you try, for example, > > > > x-terminal-emulator --geom

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-08 Thread briand
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 14:04:22 -0400 William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/08/11 at 07:26am, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 01:14:35 -0400 > > William Hopkins wrote: > > > > > On 06/07/11 at 10:04pm, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > x-terminal-emulator is a scr

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-08 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/08/11 at 07:26am, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 01:14:35 -0400 > William Hopkins wrote: > > > On 06/07/11 at 10:04pm, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > x-terminal-emulator is a script stand-in that simply redirects the > > > command line + options to gno

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-08 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 07:26:02AM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > aha, I did this : > > which x-terminal-emulator > > and got this : > > /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator > > which is a script. Hmm, I would expect that to be a link to /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator. Cheers, Tom --

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-08 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:04:02 -0700, briand wrote: > x-terminal-emulator is a script stand-in that simply redirects the > command line + options to gnome-terminal. > > if you try, for example, > > x-terminal-emulator --geometry=80x50 > > it doesn't seem to work. > > bug ? Hum... here (lenny) n

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-08 Thread briand
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 01:14:35 -0400 William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/07/11 at 10:04pm, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > x-terminal-emulator is a script stand-in that simply redirects the command > > line + options to gnome-terminal. > > > > if you try, for example, > > > > x-terminal

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-07 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/07/11 at 10:04pm, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > Hi all, > > x-terminal-emulator is a script stand-in that simply redirects the command > line + options to gnome-terminal. > > if you try, for example, > > x-terminal-emulator --geometry=80x50 > > it doesn't seem to work. Please provide the