Hello

From the gnome-terminal man page:

       -e, --command=STRING
                 Execute the argument to this option inside the terminal.

       -x, --execute
                 Execute the remainder of the command line inside the terminal.


This behaviour is inconsistent with all other terminal emulators. This 
inconsistency creates problems. From the uberspace.de linked page:

<blockquote>
`xterm -e vim file' -- I get vim with the file open.
`gnome-terminal -e vim file' -- I just get vim. To have vim open the file
        too I have to say:
`gnome-terminal -e "vim file" '.
</blockquote>


This necessitates a workaround ['hut' on the uberspace.de]: 
<blockquote>

#!/usr/bin/python
# filename: /usr/bin/gnometerm
from subprocess import Popen
from sys import argv
def shell_quote(string): return "'" + str(string).replace("'", "'\\''") + "'"
Popen(["gnome-terminal", argv[1], (" ".join(shell_quote(arg) for arg in argv[2:]))])

</blockquote>


Developers, please consider making the behaviour of -e consistent with 
other terminal emulators! In gnome-terminal since -e is just a subset
of -x can you not just make -e a synonym of -x? There is this though:
g-t allows other options after -e, so it may break existing scripts.
Contrawise, wouldn't scripts use xterm, and not gnome-terminal?


http://ranger.carina.uberspace.de/qa/33/gnome-terminal-cannot-set-termcmd-for-open_with-new-window


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From the man pages:

xterm:
       -e program [ arguments ... ]
               This option specifies the program (and its command line
               arguments) to be run in the xterm window. This must be
               the last option on the command line.


konsole:
       -e <command> [ arguments ]
              Execute ’command’ instead of shell. 
              This must be the last option on the command line.


roxterm:
       -e --execute
           Execute remainder of command line inside the terminal. Must be
           final option.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/raring/en/man1/xterm.1.html
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/konsole.1.html
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/roxterm.1.html