diff --git a/sample/VteTest.cs b/sample/VteTest.cs
index e6bf354e8..fca49c2e0 100644
--- a/sample/VteTest.cs
+++ b/sample/VteTest.cs
@@ -25,13 +25,23 @@ class T
 		ScrolledWindow sw = new ScrolledWindow ();
 		Terminal term = new Terminal ();
 		term.CursorBlinks = true;
-		term.ScrollOnOutput = true;
+		term.MouseAutohide = true;
+		term.ScrollOnKeystroke = true;
 		//term.BackgroundTransparent = true;
 		term.Encoding = "UTF-8";
 		
 		Console.WriteLine (term.UsingXft);
 		Console.WriteLine (term.Encoding);
 		Console.WriteLine (term.StatusLine);
+
+		string argv = Environment.GetCommandLineArgs () [0];
+
+		string envv = "";
+		// FIXME: send the env vars to ForkCommand
+		Console.WriteLine (Environment.GetEnvironmentVariables ().Count);
+		
+		int pid = term.ForkCommand ("/bin/bash", argv, envv, "/home/jluke", false, true, true);
+		Console.WriteLine ("Child pid: " + pid);
 		
 		sw.AddWithViewport (term);
 
diff --git a/vte/Vte.metadata b/vte/Vte.metadata
index 2004dbfad..646a652c1 100644
--- a/vte/Vte.metadata
+++ b/vte/Vte.metadata
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 <metadata>
   <attr path="/api/namespace/object[@cname='VteReaper']" name="hidden">1</attr>
+  <attr path="/api/namespace/object[@cname='VteTerminal']/method[@name='ForkCommand']/return-type" name="type">gint</attr>
 </metadata>
diff --git a/vte/vte-api.xml b/vte/vte-api.xml
index b238a6cd4..9f8d8aa0a 100644
--- a/vte/vte-api.xml
+++ b/vte/vte-api.xml
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@
         </parameters>
       </method>
       <method name="ForkCommand" cname="vte_terminal_fork_command">
-        <return-type type="pid_t"/>
+        <return-type type="gint"/>
         <parameters>
           <parameter type="const-char*" name="command"/>
           <parameter type="char**" name="argv"/>