Bug#280457: xterm: want terminal contents (and scrollback?) saved when X connection lost

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2011-06-03 11:48:03 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the xterm package:
> 
> #280457: xterm: want terminal contents (and scrollback?) saved when X connection lost
> 
> It has been closed by Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>.
[...]
> Changes: 
>  xterm (270-1) unstable; urgency=low
>  .
>    * New upstream release:
>      - Add printModeOnXError and printFileOnXError resources, which allow
>        the user to specify that xterm will write the contents of its screen
>        to a file if it is exiting due to an X error (Closes: #280457).
[...]

Thanks, but I wonder whether it is intentional to have a fixed
filename, as if one has several xterm windows open to the same
server and the X connection is lost, only one window will be
saved to the file. One can use a wrapper, though, e.g.:

#!/bin/sh

exec "/usr/bin/`basename "$0"`" -xrm \
  "*printFileOnXError: $HOME/private/xterm-saved-`date +%s`-$$" "$@"

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