What is gnome-terminal.wrapper?
Solution 1:
To put it shortly, gnome-terminal.wrapper is a perl script that sets up the arguments for gnome-terminal and then runs exec call that spawns gnome-terminal with those arguments.
Wrapper scripts are very frequently used to set up environment for different applications and other scripts.
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