problem with preferred term exec flags

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:08 -0500, Matt Baran wrote:
> I have a slight annoyance that I'm running into and I have a feeling I'm 
> missing an obvious fix. Here's the situation:
> 
> I have installed aterm to replace gnome-terminal, because I've been 
> using it for years and I'm used to it.
> 
> I used the "Preferred Applications" menu under System->Preferences to 
> change my preferred terminal from gnome-terminal to aterm, and I added 
> the following to the exec under Custom:
> 
> -ls -fg white -bg black -tr -sl 5000
> 
> Starting a terminal fires up aterm fine, but it ignores all the flags.
> 
> Same behavior when I futzed around in gconf-editor and tried to set it 
> that way.
> 
> Any ideas what I'm missing?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt
> 
Try putting all the arguments you want after the "aterm" (like this:
"aterm -ls -fg white -bg black -tr -sl 5000") in the "Command:" field
and put "-e" in the "Exec Flag:" field.

Ziyad.