Re: sensible-x-terminal and x-terminal-emulator
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 11:40:53AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> If so, just a couple of questions. I was under the impression that
> one of the main problems with the existing situation was that programs
> just defaulted to calling xterm, which doesn't work because xterm isn't
> perfect. This package doesn't seem to fix that at all: programs still
> just call xterm, and will still not work. Instead, it'd make sense, the
> way I see it, for this package to divert the xterm binary and replace
> it with the sensible-xtermemu script. That way all the old programs
> which just have "xterm" hardcoded start working and we get a chance to
> see what problems we might have making sensible-xtermemu work in Debian
> (xterms that don't accept the same arguments as xterm, and whatever else).
Any package that starts an x terminal emulator by calling xterm directly
is not packaged properly, and a bug should be filed.
--
Malcolm Parsons
finger malcolm@bits.bris.ac.uk for info
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