Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan not emailing me

[Rinaldi J. Montessi]

David Shochat wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:31:45 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:36:03 +0300, Роман Донченко wrote:
>>      [...]
>>> The Fedora package for it is called simply "Terminal".
>> 
>>      Aha! I didn't have, per rpm -q; yum got it; and it runs all right.
>> 
>>      Since I can't use Gnome Preferences till that's fixed; I went
>> into Pan's, set that to Custom, which still showed my xterm setting,
>> changed "xterm" to "Terminal" with everything else the same. So what I
>> now have is
>>  
>> Terminal -e alpine -url %s -- which doesn't work; it fails when I hit
>> send.
>> 
>>      Taking that "-e" out didn't fix it.
>> 
>>      What do I need to do?
> 
> You have to figure out the name of the executable. It is probably /not/ 
> "Terminal"; that's the package name, although I admit that in my Ubuntu 
> situation, the package name and the executable name happened to be the 
> same. But in general, they are not the same. 

ls -l `which terminal`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2008-11-28 18:30 /usr/bin/terminal -> Terminal*

terminal --help | grep -i execute
  -x, --execute                       Execute the remainder of the command
  -e, --command=STRING                Execute the argument to this option

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