Bug#256931: xterm not liking -sb -si while running in vncserver

[Jeff <jeffb@vulcan.com>]

Package: xterm
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5
Severity: normal

I'm running it from within a vncserver session using xfce4 as
session/window manager.  Same version of xterm seems to not exhibit
these problems on another machine running X to the screen and
gnome/metacity.

$ xterm -sb
xterm:  bad command line option "-sb"

usage:  xterm [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
    [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [-C] [-Sccn]
    [-T string] [-/+aw] [-/+cjk_width] [-/+dc] [-e command args ...] [%geom]
    [#geom] [-hc color] [-/+hold] [-/+ie] [-/+im] [-into windowId] [-/+j]
    [-/+k8] [-/+l] [-/+lc] [-lcc path] [-lf filename] [-/+ls] [-/+mb]
    [-mc milliseconds] [-/+mesg] [-ms color] [-n string] [-nb number] [-/+nul]
    [-/+pc] [-/+pob] [-/+rvc] [-/+rw] [-/+s] [-/+samename] [-/+sb] [-/+sf]
    [-/+si] [-/+sk] [-sl number] [-/+sm] [-/+sp] [-/+t] [-ti termid]
    [-tm string] [-tn name] [-/+u8] [-/+ulc] [-/+ut] [-/+vb] [-/+wc] [-/+wf]
    [-ziconbeep percent]

Type xterm -help for a full description.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-13   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libexpat1                 1.95.6-8       XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1            2.2.2-2        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6              2.1.7-2.1      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5               5.4-4          Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System Session Management
ii  libxaw7                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Athena widget set library
ii  libxext6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxft2                   2.1.2-6        FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxpm4                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X pixmap library
ii  libxrender1               0.8.3-7        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System client libraries m
ii  xlibs-data                4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System client data

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