Bug#233883: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=233883
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 05:22, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 03:55:24AM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> > > Closing the windows is
> > > needed since gnome gets easily confused
> > > about the windows from a previous
> > > login...
> >
> > IIRC it wasn't needed here before the current version of xterm, or
> > whatever the reason for this issue is ...
> >
> > Besides:
> > I didn't find any setting here on
> > sessionMgt
> > (man xterm is here man uxterm, and more or less unusable (23 lines
> > long... )
> >
> > Thanks for having a look at it.
>
> We're off-topic for the bug, but when I "man xterm", I get the manpage I
> expect. Same for "man uxterm".
>
> % /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display x-terminal-emulator
> x-terminal-emulator - status is manual.
> link currently points to /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm - priority 20
> slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xterm.1x.gz
> /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm - priority 30
> slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/uxterm.1x.gz
> /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper - priority 20
> slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/gnome-terminal.1.gz
> /usr/bin/konsole - priority 20
> Current `best' version is /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm.
Here:
$ /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display x-terminal-emulator
x-terminal-emulator - status is auto.
link currently points to /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm
/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm - priority 20
slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xterm.1x.gz
/usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm - priority 30
slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/uxterm.1x.gz
/usr/bin/Eterm - priority 10
slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/Eterm.1.gz
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper - priority 20
slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/gnome-terminal.1.gz
Current `best' version is /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm.
Bizarre:
As said: I see "man uxterm" when I "man xterm"
$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1098 Feb 18 10:46 /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp 252380 Feb 18 10:54 /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/man/man1/uxterm.1x.gz /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xterm.1x.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1022 Feb 18 10:51 /usr/X11R6/man/man1/uxterm.1x.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32310 Feb 18 10:50 /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xterm.1x.gz
And when I
man /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xterm.1x.gz
I get the full "man xterm", 2745 lines long, something that's different
from what I get when I "man uxterm"
And here comes the funny part:
:$ ls -l `which xterm`
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp 252380 Feb 18 10:54 /usr/bin/X11/xterm
So it looks as if I had 2 xterm executables here. No links, AFAIKS.
It seems I upgraded/installed xterm on Feb 19:
$ ls -lt -c /var/lib/dpkg/info/ | grep list | grep xterm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 846 Feb 19 18:39 xterm.list
So my guess is something went wrong at the time of this install ... and
maybe Gnome is getting confused with two xterm executables now ... not
being sure on that ...
I'll have a look at it.
Thanks for taking care.
Best Regards
Wolfgang
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