Jerome Leclanche wrote on 10/20/2015 01:21 PM:
> This is something I tried solving quite a few times. There was an
> intents spec (a la android) in the works
I assume you are referring tot (sorry, I didn't do my homework earlier):
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2014-January/013068.htm
On Tue, 2015-10-20 at 14:57 +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:
>
> > - not sure what desktop environments are doing in their code base,
> > maybe
> > hardcoding their own terminals
>
> Many use gsettings or config files.
>
> Apparently GNOME removed the UI for choosing terminal so you have to
> use
>
Hi,
Den 2015-10-20 12:23, Thomas Gläßle skrev:
- xdg-open does not know how to spawn terminals (leading to the
application aborting or even worse: suppressed output)
Only in generic mode. When running under a desktop environment xdg-open
calls e.g. gvfs-open, kde-open5, exo-open. In that case
x-terminal-emulator is used in Debian as a part of 'alternatives'
symlink system. And IMHO it works pretty well.
Option 3 looks more promising though, because it can solve the problem
of different exec arguments for different terminals and can be
overridden on user-level. But yes, mime type i
This is something I tried solving quite a few times. There was an
intents spec (a la android) in the works which was subsequently picked
up by GNOME, I don't know where it's at now but it's the more correct
fix.
On 20 October 2015 at 13:37, Thomas Gläßle wrote:
>
> Thomas Gläßle wrote on 10/20/20
Thomas Gläßle wrote on 10/20/2015 12:23 PM:
> 1 a) invent a new variable e.g. $TERMINAL or similar that works like
> $BROWSER, i.e. something of the form TERMINAL=urxvt:gnome-terminal:xterm
>
> 1 b) invent a new variable e.g. $TERMINAL or similar that works like the
> one used by mimeopen, i.e. TE
Hello freedesktop.org,
This is a follow up on a bug to xdg-utils about xdg-open not spawning
terminals for .desktop files with Terminal=true entry [1]. Rex Dieter
suggested to start a discussion here before taking further steps.
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92514
To summariz
