xffm start terminal emulator

[edscott wilson garcia]

On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 12:56, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 at 11:15 (-0500), edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 09:35, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > > On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 at 09:27 (-0500), edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 04:12, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > is there any way to prevent xffm to start the terminal emulator without
> > > > > the -u8 option?
> > > > 
> > > >  Could you be more specific? I don't understand what you are talking
> > > > about.
> > > 
> > > I just click on the Terminal icon in xffm and it starts my xterm with
> > > "xterm +mesg -aw +cm +dc -j -rightbar -s -sb -u8 -wf -sl 1024".
> > > (TERM in the settings is set to "xterm".)
> > > 
> > > Why all this options? Xffm should just start xterm.
> > 
> > If you want xffm just to start xterm, or to use any other options, just
> > define it in the TERM environment variable with the xfce-mcs-manager.
> > The reason of the default u8 option is to be consistent with gtk2 using
> > utf-8. Here I'm just guessing what Olivier would prefer. 
> 
> I did this. In the xffm window it appears:
> 
>             Das Argument ist ungültig:TERM=xterm
> In English: The argument is invalid:TERM=xterm

You get that if g_find_program_in_path("xterm") returns NULL or
access(g_find_program_in_path("xterm"),X_OK)!=0 (in src/mcs-manager.c).
Why does that happen on your system? 

regards,

Edscott

> 
> So maybe that's the point. 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bernhard