gnome-terminal --display-factory

[Michael B Allen]

I have been using this external editor command for the Sylpheed mailer:

gnome-terminal --disable-factory -x vim '%s'

This allows launching a terminal with vi so that I can capture shell
command output, edit things with vi and insert files and such. This is
a very powerful and important feature.

However after installing F24, this no longer works. The
--disable-factory option is no longer supported. It launches but after
returning control to Sylpheed, the content is lost. Nothing is
inserted into the message. I can only assume this has something to do
with --disable-factory.

Does anyone have a recommended work-around?

I know gnome-terminal is "special" so perhaps there is another
terminal for Fedora?

What is the most popular terminal other than gnome-terminal?

I pretty much only use Linux for the shell and vi. I have about 10
terminals on 5 workspaces going concurrently. So I'm hoping hard that
there are still decent terminals around.

Mike

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 05:34:32PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote:
> Does anyone have a recommended work-around?

AFAIK the only workaround would be in the program itself -- it would
have to know to wait for something _other_ than the process
termination.
> I know gnome-terminal is "special" so perhaps there is another
> terminal for Fedora?

You may be able to use mate-terminal; I think it'll retain the old
behavior, although I haven't tried it. If that doesn't work roxterm is
another option which will work.

[Michael B Allen]

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Matthew Miller  wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 05:34:32PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote:
> > Does anyone have a recommended work-around?
>
> AFAIK the only workaround would be in the program itself -- it would
> have to know to wait for something _other_ than the process
> termination.
> > I know gnome-terminal is "special" so perhaps there is another
> > terminal for Fedora?
>
> You may be able to use mate-terminal; I think it'll retain the old
> behavior, although I haven't tried it. If that doesn't work roxterm is
> another option which will work.

Hi Matthew,

I can confirm roxterm works with vi as enternal editor in Sylpheed:

roxterm -e vi '%s'

For some reason it opens very small but that is a wart that I can live
with for now.

Thanks,
Mike

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 09:06:12PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
> I can confirm roxterm works with vi as enternal editor in Sylpheed:
>   roxterm -e vi '%s'
> For some reason it opens very small but that is a wart that I can live
> with for now.

Noticed that too -- probaby worth filing a bug.