On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:29:10 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:40:03 -0700, briand wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 14:59:03 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> > if you try, for example, > >> > > >> > x-terminal-emulator --geometry=80x50 > >> > > >> > it doesn't seem to work. > >> > > >> > bug ? > >> > >> Hum... here (lenny) neither works (gnomer-terminal launches but the > >> parameter is ignored). > >> > >> > > 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 we look at the perl script: > > sm01@stt008:~$ grep geometry /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator > elsif ($opt eq '-geometry') > push(@args, "--geometry=$arg"); > > The accepted argument is "-geometry" that is then converted into gnome- > terminal parlance ("--geometry="). > There's still a bug, as the man page brings up the man page/options for gnome-terminal which uses "--geometry=". And here's the really interesting part, the x-terminal-emulator script: exec('gnome-terminal',@args); So x-terminal-emulator is using -option, but telling you the whole time that it's going to execute gnome-terminal, for which the man page is different from what it's actually doing. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110609072158.16450...@windy.deldotd.com