Bug#326200: xterm: please set eightBitInput: false by default so Alt is usable as such
On 1 December 2011 22:58, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Riku Saikkonen wrote:
>
>> I suppose this clearly is not something that should be changed while
>> in a freeze, especially since xterm in Debian has had the current
>> behaviour for so many years. But perhaps it would be possible to
>> coordinate a consistent behaviour for all the terminals in the next
>> Debian release after this frozen one?
>
> That sounded sensible to my innocent bystander ears. :) Reuben, would
> you be willing to coordinate this (or do you know anyone who would be)?
I don't actually use Debian at present; I use Ubuntu. That may limit
my usefulness. However, at the very least, I'd be happy to try doing
this:
> 1. Finding out what the major terminals in Debian currently do. If
> xterm is not the odd man out, finding a consensus, for example by
> reporting a bug against the debian-policy package with
> X-Debbugs-Cc pointing to the relevant maintainers.
What counts as "the major terminals"? Obviously xterm, uxterm,
gnome-terminal, konsole, and which others? Should I use popcon to find
out (how?)? Or can we draw up an arbitrary list? Basic use of
apt-cache search and grep suggests the following:
gnome-terminal
xterm
eterm
evilvte
guake
kterm
lxterminal
mlterm
mlterm-tiny
mrxvt
mrxvt-cjk
mrxvt-mini
pterm
roxterm
rxvt
rxvt-beta
rxvt-ml
rxvt-unicode
rxvt-unicode-256color
rxvt-unicode-lite
sakura
terminal.app
terminator
vala-terminal
wterm
wterm-ml
xfce4-terminal
xvt
konsole
I'd be quite happy to whip through that lot and see what the defaults are.
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