Option “-e” is deprecated and might be removed in a later version of gnome-terminal

[hakon]

After upgrading from Ubuntu 17.04 to 17.10, I get a warning about that option -e is deprecated when starting gnome-terminal from the command line. For example, assume I want to open a gnome-terminal with two tabs, and running separate commands in each tab:


$ gnome-terminal --tab --active -e 'bash -c "echo Hello; exec bash"' --tab -e 'bash -c "echo Hello2; exec bash"'
Option “-e” is deprecated and might be removed in a later version of gnome-terminal.
Use “-- ” to terminate the options and put the command line to execute after it.
Option “-e” is deprecated and might be removed in a later version of gnome-terminal.
Use “-- ” to terminate the options and put the command line to execute after it.

But how can I run separate commands for each tab if I am supposed to use -- to terminate the options? For example, the following does not work:

$ gnome-terminal --tab --active -- bash -c "echo Hello; exec bash" --tab -- bash -c "echo Hello2; exec bash"
It just opens a single tab.

See also:

https://askubuntu.com/q/968032/156688

--- System information:

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 17.10
Release: 17.10

$ apt-cache policy gnome-terminal
gnome-terminal:
  Installed: 3.24.2-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 3.24.2-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 3.24.2-0ubuntu4 500
        500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

Upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784925