[Bug 366644] Re: a symbolic link to terminator affects winff

[Paul Gevers]

As far as I can see at the moment terminator does not use the proper
syntax for it to declare to be an alternative for x-terminal-emulator
[1]

Programs that depend on the -e option appear to be broken when
terminator is the program linked in /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-
emulator.

Please don't specify to be an alternative if this is not the case. And
please correct me if I am wrong.

[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-
programs.html#s11.8.3

** Package changed: winff (Ubuntu) => terminator (Ubuntu)

** Description changed:

+ terminator does not honour the -e option as xterm does. It claims it is
+ an alternative for x-terminal-emulator so it must honor it as the option
+ -x in terminator.
+ 
+ ----- Original report -----
  Binary package hint: winff
  
  NB. I haven't been able to recreate this bug so I'm not sure what caused
  it. However I am reporting it and a fix as a record of its exsistance.
  
  Hope that's cool :/
  
  I installed winff and got the error;
  
    x-terminal-emulator: error: Expected zero additional arguments, found
  1
  
  A little investigation revealed that /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-
  emulator was symlinked to /usr/bin/terminator which I had installed
  previously.
  
  To solve the bug I created the correct symlink, /usr/bin/gnome-
  terminal.wrapper.
  
  Winff now works as it should.

** Summary changed:

- a symbolic link to terminator affects winff
+ terminator does not honor x-terminal-emulator -e option

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terminator does not honor x-terminal-emulator -e option
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366644
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