GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 412063
can't launch gnome-terminal with a specified profile
Last modified: 2008-07-03 12:24:13 UTC
Please describe the problem: It seems that the command-line options for gnome-terminal are missing the necessary options to launch gnome-terminal with a specified profile, as opposed to opening and *additional* window, which the --window-with-profile option does. Steps to reproduce: I have added a launcher to my gnome-panel which runs gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=ipython with ipython being a named profile in my gnome-terminal configuration. Actual results: This launcher opens *two* windows -- one with my default profile and another with my ipython profile. Expected results: A single window with the 'ipython' profile Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: gnome-terminal --help explains that this is the intended behaviour, but I think that the intended behaviour is wrong in the case where there are not yet any open gnome-terminal windows.
I can't reproduce this with 2.18 and have never seen this behaviour. I have used gnome-terminal --window-with-profile in my startup session for years.
*** Bug 528679 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Not reproducible on svn trunk either, closing.
Looks right. Possibly the problem was that when creating the Launcher, I may have selected the 'Application in Terminal' option. In any case, I was able now to create launchers with the correct behaviour.