Patch for "Open Terminal Here" keyboard shortcut

Harald Judt h.judt at gmx.at
Sun Nov 6 18:08:11 CET 2011


Am 06.11.2011 16:39, schrieb Jogy Antony:
> Hello
>
> I am new to the open source world. I have made a patch to add a
> shortcut key to "Open Terminal Here" to be integrated with Thunar.
> This is a popular request. See
>
> http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=3885
> http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=4703
> http://www.linuxformat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=74240
>
> I am sorry, it is a little bit of a hack. Would it be possible for me
> to get it integrated to XFCE ?

I haven't tried it, but the first thing that caught my eye was that the 
patch doesn't take into account the user's perference for the terminal 
application. Maybe consider using 'exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator 
--working-directory <dir>' instead?

-- 
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