Kitematic Linux Exec Terminal

[ryanleesipes]

Hey guys, using Kitematic on Arch. Really able to get things working pretty well except for the Exec button. Upon clicking I get the following error:

Unhandled rejection Error: Encountered an error: Error: Command failed: /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator -e docker exec -it ubuntu-2 sh Unknown option -e

at /opt/Kitematic (Alpha)-linux-x64/resources/app.asar/utils/Util.js:48:18
at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:232:5)
at emitTwo (events.js:87:13)
at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:172:7)
at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:818:16)
at Socket.<anonymous> (internal/child_process.js:319:11)
at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
at Socket.emit (events.js:169:7)
at Pipe._onclose (net.js:469:12)

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Am I missing a dependency? Just need some direction. @zedtux perhaps you have some insight here?

[zedtux]

@ryanleesipes can you post the output of the command x-terminal-emulator --help and also lsb_release -a.

[ryanleesipes]

I'm trying to use terminix as the terminal. But your question prompted me to check if it had a '-e' argument, and of course it doesn't. It features a '-x' instead. Perhaps in a future release we can pop in a way to change this flag?

I can use the command with xterm, but even gnome-terminal throws up an error:

Unhandled rejection Error: Encountered an error: Error: Command failed: /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator -e docker exec -it mycroft-dev sh Failed to parse arguments: Unknown option -it

Finally, I've noticed the default command to run is 'sh', it would be cool if this could be toggled to bash if the user so pleased.

[zedtux]

What Linux distro are you using?

[ryanleesipes]

Heh, Arch. So I'm on a moving target.

[bebehei]

@zedtux Thanks for the good work. I'm astonished, someone took the effort to port such a nice looking app onto linux.

This issue shows a small corner case of the differences between Ubuntu and Arch.

The file /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator is usually nonexistent on ArchLinux Systems, you have to link it manually.

I manually linked it to xterm and it works like a charm:

ln -sT xterm /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator

@ryanleesipes Where does x-terminal-emulator point to? It may be the case, that your linked terminal-emulator does not understand stand -e. So you have to readjust your link, to point it against xterm or some other emulator understanding -e.

[zedtux]

Thank you @bebehei :)