Joerg Jung wrote: > > > On 09 Nov 2015, at 22:07, Ted Unangst <[email protected]> wrote: > > Joerg Jung wrote: > >> > >> please find below an update for x11/dwm to 6.1. This release contains > >> various fixes and improvements, see announcement [1] for more details. > >> > >> OK? > > > > so now that we finally changed the default xterm back to uxterm, they > > changed > > it to st. needs another man page patch. :) > > I wonder what dwm users think about the following proposal: > > Remove the uxterm patch and keep st as the default terminal. > If you are a dwm/dmenu suckless user on your desktop you are > probably also fine with using st. > > st has become rather stable and usable. A lot of issues are > fixed and most terminal applications seem to work just fine. > > Other “desktop environments” also all start their own terminals > (e.g. gnome, kde, xfce, …). > > Or does this go one step too far?! What do you think?
I've never liked st. I don't love xterm, per se, but despite the mind numbing code it mostly seems to work. In particular, I like scrollback and I don't want to run 32 different tmux sessions to get the same effect. Maybe they're fixed, but I also had some screen drawing glitches in st a year or so ago. Now I'm also old and cranky and I think gterm, kterm, eterm, etc. are all stupid ideas too, but I'm not using dwm because I want to buy into the suckless desktop environment. I just want a window manager. (All that said, since I had to build 6.1 by myself to test, I also changed the font to ubuntu mono to match my xterms, so maybe I will just keep building it myself the way I like, so my opinion doesn't count.)
