Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry
Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> wrote:
>> > The procedure would be to upload a new 'xterm' package which moves
>> > /usr/bin/xterm to /usr/bin/xterm.real and introduces /usr/bin/xterm
> Of course, you mean /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm...
I didn't notice that. Though the cygwin people have been moving everything
out of /usr/X11R6 for some reason...
>> Mandrake did something like that a while ago(*) - broke the
>> application name for X resources.
> I was also going to point out the issue of X resources. While
> remaining in favor of fixing other applications rather than changing
> xterm, I would point out that this issue could be mitigated by having
> xterm be moved into another directory so its base name would be the
> same. (I suppose /usr/lib/xterm/xterm could work...) That said, I am
That probably would work. It's only the argv[0] that's used to get the
application name, iirc.
> not able to convince myself that this is an issue here... if I clear
> my X resources, set HOME to a temporary directory, copy
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm (as root, preserving setuid) to /tmp/xterm.real,
> and invoke /tmp/xterm.real, I see a client class of UXTerm and a
> client name of xterm. Maybe this is debian-specific? I thought only
> uxterm did that.
I thought so too - uxterm passes the "-class" option for this purpose.
And that's one of the few that isn't implemented using a resource value,
so it's unlikely that your xrdb setup could pass a -class option to it.
(Usually I'm running whatever xterm I compiled - from /usr/local/bin -
but should have noticed if Debian had modified that - was testing on
Friday).
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