Re: xterm vs gnome terminal

On 05/02/11 14:31, JD wrote:
On 05/02/11 14:09, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 02May2011 13:14, JD<jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| $ cat /home/jd/bin/viewer
| #!/bin/sh
| xterm -fn 12x24 -bg white -fg black -e vi $*&
|
| How can I replace xterm with gnome-terminal?
|
| I tried to simply change xterm to gnome-terminal
| but gnome-terminal does not recognize the args
| and never executes vi on the file selected.

I discovered to my horror several years ago that gnome-terminal wants to
use "-x" where xterm and most other terminals use "-e".

Have a look at "man gnome-terminal" for specifics.

But try this:

gnome-terminal -bg white -fg black -x vi ${1+"$@"}&

ALso note the change of $* - your origial script will break if you
get files
with whitespec in their names.

Cheers,
When I tried it I got this message:

Failed to parse arguments: Unknown option -bg

Also, there is no man page for gnome-terminal on my F14.

I tried this variation:
gnome-terminal -x /usr/bin/vi "$*" &

and I do get the terminal, but the terminal has a bright red
banner in it with 3 lines:
There was an error creating the child process for this terminal
Failed to execute child process "/usr/bin/
vi" (No such file or directory)

On the right hand side of the terminal are 2 click buttons (rectangles):
Profile Preferences
Relaunch

I find it strange that gnome terminal would not recognize
the fully qualified pathname of an executable.

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