It's rather annnoying bug, as it causes to open console applications in xterm instead of DE-specific terminal emulator, as there: https://askubuntu.com/questions/788736/open-vim-in-xfce4-terminal-from- thunar. The patch is trivial and just adds x-terminal-emulator into the list of considered by glib terminal emulators.
** Patch added: "Adds x-terminal-emulator-support to glib "open in terminal emulator" functionality" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/501192/+attachment/4947233/+files/x-terminal-emulator-support.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to glib2.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501192 Title: ignores x-terminal-emulator Status in glib2.0 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: The GIO sublibrary in GLib has a function called prepend_terminal_to_vector, which prepare a command line by prepending it with a valid X terminal name before executing it. The function as distributed in Glib first search for gnome-terminal before trying several well-known terminal application. I believe this is not acceptable in a distribution like Ubuntu, which supports the x-terminal-emulator alternative to set the preferred terminal to the user. As it is right now, gnome-panel simply ignores the chosen x-terminal-emulator as well as the GNOME preferred terminal application (and that is another bug!) I don't know any other application which expose this bug other than gnome-panel. Glib applications in Ubuntu should default to x-terminal- emulator before trying any other kind of terminal emulator. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/501192/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
