Issue with gnome-terminal [Re: Fwd: [GRASS-user] Page 37 "Open Source GIS" by Neteler & Mitasova]

[Moritz Lennert]

On 31/01/08 23:34, Matt wrote:
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> From: *Matt* <mlpublic42 at gmail.com <mailto:mlpublic42 at gmail.com>>
> Date: Jan 28, 2008 8:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Page 37 "Open Source GIS" by Neteler & Mitasova
> To: Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org <mailto:neteler at osgeo.org>>
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> Thanks for the quick reply. 
> When I make the entries you suggest I get the following in an 
> Application Error box:
> /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator: to set an icon, please use -name <profile> 
> and set a profile icon
> /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator: to set an icon, please use -name <profile> 
> and set a profile icon
>     while executing
> "exec -- $env(GISBASE)/etc/grass-xterm-wrapper -T g.proj -n g.proj -e 

This is probably an issue with gnome-terminal which does not take the 
same command line arguments as xterm. Try setting GRASS_XTERM to xterm.

This does raise an issue about which command line arguments we can use 
for grass-xterm-wrapper. Is there a general standard ?

Moritz

Moritz