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MeanEYE
Improve user interface to explain how to use external terminal emulators.
I prefer to use external terminal windows so I have chosen "External terminal" and set "Command line" to "x-terminal-emulator -into {0}" in "Edit" - "Preferences" - "Terminal".
Now as I press Ctrl+Z or click the terminal button a terminal window pops up as it is meant to but at the same time an empty "Terminal" tab emerges in the Sunflower panel. I believe it should not.
The reason is presence of {0}. As the note below the command line states:
I should probably switch to using named parameters. Can you change to {1} and see if this still happens. Also -into is not needed as it's a xterm flag to specify embeding into specified socket/window id.
To be more specific, "external terminal" refers to using Xterm or UXTerm and embed it into Sunflower tab, but it's still in a tab. Only when there's no {0} external terminal application is used.
However I can see how this is not immediately clear and can be confusing unless attention is paid to small details.
Please confirm if the desired behavior is achieved without {0}, at which point I'll rename this issue and mark it as interface enhancement.
Oh, thanks, this is the solution. Too stupid of me, just didn't read the note :-] Sorry.
Okay, it's not so much stupid as I didn't really make comprehensible interface. Glad this is not a bug, am renaming it to enhancement.
Am afraid this functionality is slowly going away. Am not going to remove it from Sunflower, but Wayland based compositors don't allow embedding like X.org did. So it's only a matter of time before this feature goes away.