On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
Package: xterm Version: 271-1 Severity: wishlist xterm should have a way to run a user-specified shell command on some event. For instance, xterm could define a new action run-command(command [, ...?]). The command would get context information, either as an argument or in standard input, such as what is under the mouse pointer (so that the user doesn't need to make a selection first).
That's off in that gray area where (disregarding the double standards applied to gnome-terminal, konsole, etc), the security team is likely to limit or suppress the feature. Lacking some discussion with those people, yes it's a simple feature, but not certain you'd get it in Debian.
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