[GRASS-dev] hardcoded 'xterm': wrapper?

Moritz Lennert mlennert at club.worldonline.be
Thu Aug 31 03:10:07 EDT 2006


Glynn Clements wrote:
>>>>> It seems to work for me,
>>>> After this change any command from d.m that spawns terminal (d.zoom,
>>>> r.digit etc.) is broken on my Ubuntu Dapper, where gnome-terminal is a
>>>> default terminal.
>>>>
>>>> In spearfish60:
>>>>
>>>> $ d.m
>>>> add any layer
>>>> display it
>>>> press Zoom
>>>>
>>>> gnome-terminal pops-up saying:
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> /usr/local/grass-6.3.cvs/etc/grass-run.sh: line 30: d.zoom: command not
>>>> found
>>>>
>>>> ERROR: d.zoom exited abnormally. Press <enter> to continue.
>>>> ---
>>> It appears that gnome-terminal resets $PATH.
>>>
>>> In which case, you need to either set GRASS_XTERM to "xterm" to force
>>> the use of an xterm instead, or figure out how to make gnome-terminal
>>> preserve $PATH.
>> gnome-terminal is a default terminal for Gnome as you know. That means
>> that not only I, but most Gnome would have to do it. This means that
>> d.m in Grass 6.3 will be broken on many Linux boxes by default. If we
>> don't want it, shouldn't the change that breaks Grass 6.3 on Gnome
>> should be reverted?
>>
>> What was wrong about using xterm by deafult?
> 
> Programs which require a terminal should arguably use the user's
> preferred terminal by default. Of course, that reasoning falls down if
> the user's preferred terminal is signficantly broken.
> 
> Have you checked whether this is an actual gnome-terminal
> bug/misfeature, or whether it's just your configuration that's causing
> problems?
> 

I can confirm the problem, and up to now, I have not been able to find a 
command switch to gnome-terminal which allows to keep environment 
variables...

Moritz




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