Re: all xterms
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 08:52:51AM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 07:23:38PM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
>
> > > PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
> > > ln -s /usr/bin/X11/<xterm replacement> $HOME/bin/x-terminal-emulator
> >
> > This is a problem.
> > Your way will need a non-standard $PATH on every account to do the trick.
> > We cant make default $PATH to point to the $HOME/bin nor $HOME/.bin cause
> > this directory most probable doesnt exist, we cant create it by default by
> > /etc/skel cause this is discouraged method (from:policy) so every user will
> > have to
> > 1) make dir
> > 2) change every shell's config file for $PATH
> > 3) make a link
>
> This is false. Policy discourages using /etc/skel in packages. Of course
> a sys admin is free to put anything he wants there.
/etc/skel:
I meant we have to make globally a setting providing
user-basis chose of xterm. So /etc/skel would have to be set
by some package not by admin.
Am I false elsewhere also?
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