ctrl+enter in the verve command line should execute the command in a terminal. For this purpose the script xfterm4 is called which is part of the xfce-utils package. However this package was removed in 4.10 (see http://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.10/roadmap/xfce-utils). I guess it could be replaced by exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator <arguments> but this solution would not pause and keep the terminal window open after the command is executed. Alternatively the terminal command could be made configurable.
Good catch, i'll try to fix it in a sane way using exo-open. When you say 'but this solution would not pause and keep the terminal window open after the command is executed.', what behaviour do you expect ? wasnt it the previous behaviour with xfterm4 ?
I haven't used verve before so I don't really know how xfterm4 behaved. A quick glance at the script showed, that it would execute the "pauseme" command when the terminal argument would point at an executable file.
Fixed in f2580a5, using exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator just works fine, tested with top here, when exiting top the terminal window is closed.