Bug#270374: Patch to use x-terminal-emulator instead of xterm

Jens Peter Secher jps at debian.org
Fri Apr 21 09:22:20 UTC 2006


On 4/21/06, Ryan Murray <rmurray at debian.org> wrote:

> gdm really needs xterm for the window management it performs to work.  It
> cannot be replaced with x-terminal-emulator

Well, with the above patch, I got gdm to start a failsafe "xterm"
session without having an xterm, only a pterm.  What exactly is it
that xterm provides which an x-terminal-emulator does not?
--
                                                    Jens Peter Secher
_DD6A 05B0 174E BFB2 D4D9 B52E 0EE5 978A FE63 E8A1 jpsecher gmail com_





More information about the Pkg-gnome-maintainers mailing list