Public bug reported:
I have *no* clue what package this would be assigned to.
I have a Microsoft wireless keyboard that has buttons along the top:
Back, Forward, media control buttons, volume control buttons, and then
"Web/Home", "Search" and "Mail". All of the buttons that I use (which
excludes the media control) work fine, save for the Mail key.
My mail agent is alpine, and it's set in the GNOME default applications
preference, and can be invoked just fine from mail-notify (which
executes the GNOME default mailer, which of course has to be in a
terminal). When I press the Mail button, though, the system pops up a
terminal with the error message "There was an error creating the child
process for this terminal". Watching for the gnome-terminal process'
creation, it becomes apparent that gnome-terminal is being executed as:
gnome-terminal -x -e alpine
This command line doesn't make any sense, as -x says "execute the
remainder of the command line" so gnome-terminal ignores options past
that point in the command line, meaning that gnome-terminal is
attempting to execute a program named "-e" with the single parameter
"alpine".
Since other applications can open my default mailer just fine, I'm going
to guess that the problem is specific to whatever package handles the
keyboard input... but I don't know what that would be.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Mail key on keyboard executes wrong command
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407831
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