xffm start terminal emulator

edscott wilson garcia edscott at imp.mx
Fri Jul 18 22:39:53 CEST 2003


On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 15:28, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 at 20:46 (+0200), Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 at 13:34 (-0500), edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> > > 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? 
> > 
> > It doesn't happen in general. I tried following test program:
> > 
> > #include <glib-2.0/glib.h>
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <unistd.h>
> > 
> > int main (void){
> > 
> >         if (g_find_program_in_path("xterm") == NULL) {
> >                 printf("Returned NULL\n");
> >         } else {
> >                 printf("Returned not null\n");
> >                 if (access(g_find_program_in_path("xterm"),X_OK)==0) {
> >                         printf("Everything ok\n");
> >                 }
> >         }
> > 
> >         return 0;
> > }
> > 
> > [~] $ ./test 
> > Returned not null
> > Everything ok
> 
> Maybe the problem has something to do with the TERM crash, I applied the
> patch.

Do a CVS checkout and remove all previous versions. That should fix
things.

> 
> Regards,
> Bernhard



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