Re: xterm colors / sawfish fonts
<quote who="Walt Reed">
> Frankly, it's fine to muck with gnome-terminal all they want, but leave my
> xterm alone!!! :-) Seriously, it screws up users. I was thinking that an
> xterm upgrade caused the problem. I had NO IDEA that Gnome was messing
> with non-Gnome apps. In fact, it makes me wonder what other things they
> are messing with that they really have no business messing with...
>
> IMHO, debian should NOT enable this behavior by default, or should at
> least have a debconf question that allows users to enable it. This kind of
> thing causes very unexpected behavior, and without knowledge of what was
> causing it, I really had no way of tracking down what was causing the
> change in behavior. I was damn near ready to go out and compile my own
> xterm to see if that would help.
The correct solution is most likely going to involve a special case for
xterm in the grdb code (which Ross re-added to GNOME 2.4). I wonder if there
was a special case for it in the original grdb...
(The grdb functionality is actually really useful otherwise.)
- Jeff
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