xterm valid command not working in konsole nor gnome terminal

this works fine with xterm

xterm -e '(dialog --msgbox "thebigmessage" 0 0)'

but not with konsole nor gnome-terminal

konsole -e '(dialog --msgbox "thebigmessage" 0 0)'  
gnome-terminal -e '(dialog --msgbox "thebigmessage" 0 0)'

I need the parenthesis (which are the issue) because I am actually doing

xterm -e '(dialog --msgbox "thebigmessage" 0 0 >/dev/tty) 2>&1'

both konsole and gnome-terminal say: (dialog is not recognized as a valid command.

EDIT: the following works on xterm & konsole

xterm -e bash -c '(dialog --msgbox "thebigmessage" 0 0)'
konsole -e bash -c '(dialog --msgbox "thebigmessage" 0 0)'

and this works on gnome-terminal

gnome-terminal -x bash -c '(dialog --msgbox "thebigmessage" 0 0)'

I need to know for any existing type of terminals. if you can check it on other terminals, thanks for adding the result here.

tinyfiledialogs

Posted 2015-04-21T18:41:09.093

Reputation: 165

Answers

The -e argument is interpreted differently in these terminal emulators.

For gnome-terminal, you can execute

gnome-terminal -x bash -c '(dialog --msgbox "thebigmessage" 0 0)'

egmont

Posted 2015-04-21T18:41:09.093

Reputation: 1 791

1it works. thanks. I've found this one: konsole -e bash -c '(dialog --msgbox "thebigmessage" 0 0)' – tinyfiledialogs – 2015-04-22T07:24:37.813

Haha, thanks! I noticed konsole didn't have a -x, but didn't realize its -e was just fine. – egmont – 2015-04-22T08:49:27.557

Another note: There's a gnome-terminal.wrapper shipped by Ubuntu, which serves the purpose that it recognizes the same flags as xterm and konsole, that is: gnome-terminal.wrapper -e bash -c ... – egmont – 2015-04-26T12:31:09.627