On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 02:12:00AM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: > PS: The FAQ ITSELF recommends what I'm suggesting, and shows how to do > it without a recompile: > > "If, for example, you are running an older xterm and rlogin to a system > where the newer xterm has been installed, you will have this problem, > because both programs default to $TERM set to xterm. The solution for mixed > systems is to install the newer terminal description as as a different name > (e.g., xterm-color) and set the termName resource accordingly in the > app-defaults file for the system which has the newer xterm." > > Therefore, by the very same FAQ you cited, you should alter the xterm > App-Defaults file on debian to have termName be something other than > vanilla "xterm". Bzzt, wrong again. $ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/xterm.conffiles /etc/X11/app-defaults/UXTerm /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color *YOU* should alter the xterm App-Defaults file on *YOUR* Debian system to work best with whatever other implementations of xterm you desire! > Lower down, it suggests using "xterm-xfree86" as the id for xfree86 > xterms. And yet xterm continues to ship with its built-in termName set to "xterm". > But either way, you should see to it that the vanilla 'xterm' terminfo > is made just that: vanilla No, I should see to it that Debian's xterm works for that majority of users, not those who bitch the loudest and possess the fewest clues. /me quotes the Official Motto of the X Strike Force -- G. Branden Robinson | It's not a matter of alienating Debian GNU/Linux | authors. They have every right to branden@debian.org | license their software however we http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | like. -- Craig Sanders
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