diff --git a/OpenFlipper.cc b/OpenFlipper.cc
index e18a513e42a0130bb0d0954e76b76b90da70000b..f97dc294c8f0cda38204fa1135151adf1a143e90 100644
--- a/OpenFlipper.cc
+++ b/OpenFlipper.cc
@@ -464,6 +464,11 @@ CommandLineParseResult parseCommandLine(QCommandLineParser &parser, QString *err
    for(auto s : poptions)
    {
        auto kvp = s.split("=");
+
+       // Only consider terms of the kind "key=value"
+       if(kvp.size() != 2u)
+           continue;
+
        auto key = kvp[0];
        auto value = kvp[1];
        pcloptions.push_back({key, value});