On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 12:15:45PM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > Hmm, a possible solution would be to make x-terminal-emulator a wrapper > script rather than an alternatives symlink. > > A fairly basic script could translate xterm options to whatever was > required for the selected emulator. That way, menu.h and packages could > treat `x-terminal-emulator' simply as they would xterm and it will work. > > This solution is also more flexible, as you could have a global > selection of the default emulator in /etc/X11/something, and allow that > to be overridden on a per-user basis. > > You could also allow args like `--for-Eterm=-O' which would be passed to > Eterm, but ignored otherwise. A sound idea, but right now it's vapor. I might be willing to get behind such a thing once it's written and I can see how well it works. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | kernel panic -- causal failure branden@ecn.purdue.edu | universe will now reboot roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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