[Bug 43965] Re: konsole -e does not work due to pty problems

[Robert Knight]

> That brings up a message box indicating problems with the PTY
configuration.

The error has nothing to do with PTY configuration.  The Konsole code
first checks to see if the executable exists and if it does then it
assumes that any subsequent failures are a PTY related issue.  This
behaviour is not correct and will need to be fixed.

Konsole and xterm treat the -e option differently I believe.  The
following works in Konsole and xterm:

konsole -e sh -c "ls;echo hello;sleep 10"

I think in xterm the "sh -c" part is implicit.

> It's particularly annoying if x-terminal-emulator points to /usr/bin/konsole, since it 
> works fine with xterm.

What is the use case?

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konsole -e does not work due to pty problems
https://launchpad.net/bugs/43965