[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#548166: Bug#548166: Bug#548166: xfce4-terminal: emailing by mutt from openoffice fails

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Thu Oct 1 22:07:29 UTC 2009


On jeu, 2009-10-01 at 23:38 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On jeu, 2009-09-24 at 11:49 +0200, michal palenik wrote:
> > Package: xfce4-terminal
> > Version: 0.4.0-1
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > openoffice file->send by mutt option is not using when xfce4-terminal is
> > x-terminal-emulator 
> > changing x-terminal-emulator to xterm or konsole makes this working
> > 
> > openoffice calls something like "x-terminal-emulator -e mutt -e 'set
> > from="my name"' -a filename" 
> > 
> > i assume the problematic parts are spaces in the arguments (after first
> > -e switch) which are inproperly handed.
> > 
> > (probably unproper) changes needed to make it work:
> > 
> > link x-terminal-emulator to /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal instead of
> > /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper (the wrapper changes -e switch to -x,
> > probably has problems with spaces in argument -e, both terminal and mutt
> > are using -e option)
> 
> xfce4-terminal doesn't support the command line you try to give it, so
> that's not a good idea anyway. I didn't wrote the
> xfce4-terminal.wrapper, but I guess its point is to have a standard
> interface for those cases, so the purpose would be to accept a command
> line for xterm (I guess), parse it correctly and give it to
> xfce4-terminal in a way it can understands.
> 
> It has not been touched since quite some time (and it's a Debian
> specific file), so I'll try to investigate and see what's possible to
> do.

Btw, it perfectly works with Evolution.

-- 
Yves-Alexis
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