<quote who="Walt Reed"> > Frankly, it's fine to muck with gnome-terminal all they want, but leave my > xterm alone!!! :-) Seriously, it screws up users. I was thinking that an > xterm upgrade caused the problem. I had NO IDEA that Gnome was messing > with non-Gnome apps. In fact, it makes me wonder what other things they > are messing with that they really have no business messing with... > > IMHO, debian should NOT enable this behavior by default, or should at > least have a debconf question that allows users to enable it. This kind of > thing causes very unexpected behavior, and without knowledge of what was > causing it, I really had no way of tracking down what was causing the > change in behavior. I was damn near ready to go out and compile my own > xterm to see if that would help.
The correct solution is most likely going to involve a special case for xterm in the grdb code (which Ross re-added to GNOME 2.4). I wonder if there was a special case for it in the original grdb... (The grdb functionality is actually really useful otherwise.) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ Snow Crash was a terrible book: Superheroes wear their underpants on the outside, not for two weeks without changing them.
