Re: what's up with xterm?
>>>>> "Branden" == Branden Robinson <branden@ecn.purdue.edu> writes:
>>>>> "Brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@mail.wm.edu> writes:
(scary! :)
Branden> Of course it is up to the individual system administrator
Branden> to decide which set of problems he'd like to deal with;
Branden> that is why Debian has three (non-legacy) terminal types
Branden> available for xterm: xterm, xterm-xfree86, and
Branden> xterm-debian.
Brandon> Thanks Branden. I relize that there is a lot of good
Brandon> from having $TERM default to xterm-debian. I think I'll
Brandon> add wrappers to my remote login commands to change
Brandon> xterm-debian to xterm on my next build and leave the
Brandon> default as is. However, for the new users, perhaps it
Brandon> would be good to ask them which sort of problems they
Brandon> would prefer during the xterm installation. How
Brandon> difficult would this be?
I'd like to second this; please prompt the user upon installation of
(xbase? is that what includes the app-defaults for xterm?) that they
*should* choose xterm-debian if the box is just for their own use, but
that if they want to be able to connect to other UNIX boxes without a
lot of hassle, they should select xterm as the default terminal type.
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