Ubuntu
gnome-terminal package

  1. Bug #1745273
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Comment 0 for bug 1745273

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Simon May (socob) wrote : Cannot open gnome-terminal with long working directory name containing Unicode characters

1) The release of Ubuntu you are using: Ubuntu 17.10

2) The version of the package you are using: 3.24.2-0ubuntu4

3) What you expected to happen: When opening a terminal window with a long working directory path containing Unicode characters (such as “/home/test/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/ä/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789” in a 80×24 window), gnome-terminal opens normally.

4) What happened instead: gnome-terminal closes immediately, both when opened using
gnome-terminal --working-directory=/home/test/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/ä/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789
and when changing to this directory using “cd”. There is no output on stderr or anywhere else, the window just closes.

This makes it impossible to use gnome-terminal for many directories with long paths. This did NOT happen in Ubuntu 16.04.