Bug#348775: general: terminal emulators' alternatives settings' priorities annoy users

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

clone 348775 -1
reassign -1 xdg-utils 1.0.2+cvs20100307-3
retitle xdg-utils please introduce (sane) xdg-terminal
tags -1 + upstream
quit

Paul Wise wrote:

> In xdg-utils CVS there is an xdg-terminal script, not sure why that
> isn't available in Debian yet:

When no desktop is in use, it uses $TERM to choose a terminal,
so on this machine it would end up trying to run 'linux'. :)
Using $TERMINAL would fix that, I think.