Terminal execute command syntax errors about bunsen-pipemenus HOT 5 CLOSED

How many terminals are there going to be in Bunsen?

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Just one emulator I guess, but it makes sense that the utility scripts should work with any others that a user may install.
It could be a lot of work though, if quoted/unquoted is important, because of quoted commands within other scripts.

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Just reviewed forum discussion, last johnraff was leaning toward xfce4-terminal as the default for x-terminal-emulator. (I note other terminals were mentioned that I did not include in my tests: sakura, mate-terminal). However, if we are going to use x-terminal-emulator, we should support any valid choice. Otherwise we should create bl-terminal-emulator alternative to restrict the set of possibilities.

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x-terminal-emulator is required to support the unquoted variation, ie what comes after the -e is a command and its arguments.
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html#s11.8.3

xfce4-terminal does in fact support that when called as x-terminal-emulator because what is actually registered with debian alternatives is a wrapper script xfce4-terminal.wrapper. All other terminals providing x-terminal-emulator should support that syntax either natively or through such a wrapper script.

(The failure of Terminator on Wheezy to support that syntax, although registering itself as an x-terminal-emulator alternative, was a long-standing bug which has been fixed on its Jessie version.)

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@johnraff - I appreciate your thoroughness in finding the policy docs and pointing out the function of the wrapper script (and the -T requirement on the other issue). FYI: Mate-terminal and gnome-terminal share the same limitation and also provide a wrapper. Sakura as x-terminal-emulator supports -e, but does NOT support -T (Debian bug report filed).

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