Re: sensible-x-terminal and x-terminal-emulator
From: Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>
Subject: Re: sensible-x-terminal and x-terminal-emulator
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 16:32:21 +1000
> > > perfect. This package doesn't seem to fix that at all: programs still
> > > just call xterm, and will still not work.
> > Yes it works for me! It calls kterm in my system when I select
> > 'Apps/Shells/Bash' in the menu of WindowMaker because I set LANG=ja_JP.ujis
> > which is necessary for Japanese user in general.
>
> Except you have to go out of your way to change WindowMaker's config to
> call sensible-xtermemu, afaict from the source anyway. If you're going
> to go out of your way to do that, you could've just pointed it at kterm
> anyway. I thought the point was to have these things Just Work(tm),
> so Japanese or Korean or whatever users didn't have to edit config
> files in the first place. Diverting xterm seems like the easiest way to
> achieve this in the short term. In the longer term we can change policy,
> and edit packages, and whatever else, of course.
>
> > It only replaces xterm or so which is called automatically,
> > that is, from menu or from applications. This is the design
> > of sensible-xtermemu/sensible-x-terminal, IMHO.
>
> I can't see how it could be doing this at the moment, though. I may just
> be blind, though.
No, you are not blind at all. On the contrary, I completely forgot
that I modified /etc/menu-methods/menu.h to test sensible-xtermemu
a few weeks ago. Very sorry.
And I can got your point that you think of the way to test sensible-xtermemu
in the short term.
> > > way I see it, for this package to divert the xterm binary and replace
> > > it with the sensible-xtermemu script.
> > Then it is very tedious to call xterm, isn't it?
>
> Well, you could just set XTERMEMU to /usr/bin/X11/xterm.x11 or whatever
> you diverted it to, and xterm would (eventually) startup the original
> xterm just like it always used to. No big deal.
Well I am not sure but your advise might be good. I would
like to leave the decision to the author of sensible-xtermemu.
Thanks for your advice and sorry for my misunderstanding.
Best Regards, 2000.7.21
--
Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
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