Re: sensible-x-terminal and x-terminal-emulator
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 09:20:13AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> From: Malcolm Parsons <malcolm@ivywell.screaming.net>
> Subject: Re: sensible-x-terminal and x-terminal-emulator
> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 19:55:09 +0100
>
> > Either read the update-alternatives man page or just type this command:
> > update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator
> >
> > The priority system determines the best default, you are free to override it
> > on a system or per user basis.
>
> But there are few cases where update-alternatives is not appropriate
> and I think that x-terminal-emulator is just the case.
>
> Linux is a multi-user OS so how to do if several persons use the
> same computer and some prefer xterm but others prefer rxvt.
> How to do if Korean and Japanese use the same machine?
Maybe I should have explained the per user override bit above.
This can currently only be done manually as follows:
ln -s `which hanterm` ~/bin/x-terminal-emulator
export PATH=~/bin:$PATH
> How to do if you should install Debian to 10 or 100 computers?
The same way you change any other setting on a cluster.
> Is it easy to setup by update-alternatives?
> Perhaps sensible-x-terminal-emulator can handle these cases
> much better than update-alternatives, IMHO.
A script that allowed a user to setup the symlink and PATH above would
be very useful not just for xterms, but for all alternatives managed
programs. This may even be a simple extension to update-alternatives.
--
Malcolm Parsons
finger malcolm@bits.bris.ac.uk for info
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