Currently, the -e option is far from usability: $ terminal -e ls -lh Unknown option "-lh" $ Most popular terminals, like xterm, urxvt, etc. do support the -e option according to this: -e program [ arguments ... ] It would be great if the Xfce terminal could get unified to this convention too.
Hello Mateusz, You need to quote the command with its options, as for your example: terminal -e 'ls -lh' Regards, Mike
My point is, the the requirement to have it quote is a different behaviour to what xterm and others do support. The call was to unify the inerface.
Hello Mateusz, For the record, the -e option is correct in the way it works, however the -x option is supposed to pass the remaining options to the command to execute which is currently broken, see bug 9167. The -x option is most likely what you want to use instead of -e. Regards, Mike