On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 04:24:00PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote:
> 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.)
>
My preference is vanilla.
