mate-terminal.wrapper needed about mate-terminal HOT 6 CLOSED

My minimal wrapper looks like this, it just swaps -e for -x:

#!/bin/sh
while [ "$1" ]; do
  param=$1
  shift
  [ $param = '-e' ] && param='-x'
  args="$args $param"
done
exec mate-terminal $args

This sample script might handle parameters with special characters badly, and it should be integrated into the Debian
/etc/alternatives system as well.

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I've written the wrapper in C as, unlike a shell, it does not mess with the special characters in the arguments. I don't really know the mate build system, so I've just simply compiled and installed it in /usr/bin. It works nicely.

#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    int i;
    argv[0] = "/usr/bin/mate-terminal";
    for (i = 1; i < argc; ++i) {
        if (strncmp(argv[i], "-e", 3) == 0) {
            argv[i] = "-x";
        }
    }
    execv(argv[0], argv);
    return 1; /* if exec returns, it's an error, baby */ 
}

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There is an example here too:
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal_2.30.2-1.debian.tar.gz
see gnome-terminal.wrapper

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mate-terminal.wrapper added

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Thanks!

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Does this really have to be in Python?

and this wrapper is not needed on systems not using alternatives? what symlink actually points to this? can somebody show?

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