Re: what's up with xterm?
On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Arrigo Triulzi wrote:
> I understand that there was loads of discussion and, as correctly
> pointed out by Branden there is a lot of ignorance, including mine, but
> can we please stop a second and think about more far-fetching
> consequences than the local machine and our own personal accounts? I
> have rooms of terminals running Debian... Do we really have to answer
> millions of `Why does it say "unknown terminal type"?' questions?
> Shouldn't the default be that it works and the "smart user's option"
> the super-duper xterm-debian option?
I don't know what to make of all this. My Univ has a wack of machines
running 'CDE' (HP-UX) and they have this annying dterm that of course has
it's own unique terminal type that isn't recognized by half the machines
on campus. The SGI's use 'winterm' whatever the heck that is and the
windows telnet's have all sorts of wierd selections.
xterm-debian is just the latest in a long, long, -LONG- line of slightly
different terminal types :<
I admit I have no idea why we are using a new terminal type or what the
advantage to xterm-debian is.. I personally use rxvt.
Jason
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