Re: Complying with x-terminal-emulator
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:42:12 +0200
Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> wrote:
> Please read Debian policy 11.8.3. Packages providing a terminal emulator:
>
> To be an `x-terminal-emulator', a program must:
> * Be able to emulate a DEC VT100 terminal, or a compatible
> terminal.
> * Support the command-line option `-e <command>', which creates a
> new terminal window[1] and runs the specified <command>,
> interpreting the entirety of the rest of the command line as a
> command to pass straight to exec, in the manner that `xterm'
> does.
> * Support the command-line option `-T <title>', which creates a new
> terminal window with the window title <title>.
I'm sorry I didn't look hard enough. Google treats x-terminal-emulator
as 3 separate words so the results I was looking for didn't get a good
enough priority. I should have grepped my local copy of the policy
manual too.
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TH * http://www.realh.co.uk
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