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xfce terminal does not honor the -e option right if there is a semicolon in the arg

Submitted by HJ

Assigned to Nick Schermer

Link to original bug (#11673)

Description

It seems the xfce4-terminal has some issues with the -e option if the is more than one command given (made this major since it breaks many scripts that use the x-terminal-emulator -e alternative(eg useing ";read" to stay open)

xterm/uxterm -e "sleep 5; echo a; sleep 3": opens window -> sleeps 5s -> outputs a -> sleeps 3s -> closes

xfce4-terminal -e "sleep 5; echo a; sleep 3": opens window -> closes window

Version: 0.6.2