Re: gnome terminal: start up with command?

[Jacob Berkman <jberkman andrew cmu edu>]

Bart Schuller <schuller+gnome@lunatech.com> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:32:59PM -0500, Jacob Berkman wrote:
> > chris@chinook.atd.ucar.EDU (Chris Webster) writes:
> > > xterm blah blah -e cu -p port4 dir
> > 
> > You can do:
> > 
> > gnome-terminal -c "cu -p port4 dir"

eek, this should be -e, not -c  :)

> > or (in newer gnome-terminals)
> > 
> > gnome-terminal -x cu -p port4 dir
> 
> Is there a reason for gnome-terminal having a -e option which appears to
> do the right thing except that if you want xterm's -e you need -x?

The -e was what was originally implemented.  It could not be removed due to 
backwards compatability issues, so the -x was added.  I think -x is the
recommended use now, though.

Jacob
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