[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#434863: Bug#434863: xfce4-terminal: Wrapper script seems broken

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi.

Andrea Bolognani <eof at kiyuko.org> (02/08/2007):
> What I can see, as a user, is that, if I run xterm (or rxvt, or
> gnome-terminal, they behave the same) from a terminal window, the
> shell is blocked because the new terminal process is in the
> foreground, and the shell waits for it to complete before giving me
> back the prompt.

If I do the following from an xfce4-terminal window:
| xfce4-terminal
Or:
| xfce4-terminal -x vim /foo/bar
Or:
| xfce4-terminal.wrapper -e vim /foo/bar

Everything is alright: a new terminal window appears, the calling one is
blocked, and waiting for the second to terminate. In the 2nd and the 3rd
case, vim is spawned correctly.

If I use:
| xfce4-terminal -e vim /foo/bar
(/foo/bar being there or not), I get the following:
| LANG=C xfce4-terminal -e vim /tmp 1>/dev/null
| Unknown option "/tmp"

but you said you were using `xfce4-terminal.wrapper', right?
  
> If I do the same with xfce4-terminal, I immediately get the prompt
> back: this is because (my guess of course) xfce4-terminal forks on
> startup, or does a similar trick to run in the background; this causes
> the shell (or Sylpheed) to think the process terminated, and returns
> to do its stuff.

What if you `strace' it? (`-f' might help).

> It is also different from the expected behavior, since xterm, rxvt and
> gnome-terminal all stay in the foreground, and xterm is AFAICT the
> reference implementation for terminals.

Not different here...

Cheers,

-- 
Cyril Brulebois
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