On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 06:04:20AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> I do not run uxterm. I run x-terminal-emulator, which is supposed to give >> me a sane terminal emulator by default, but in current sarge, uxterm is >> the default for x-terminal-emulator. This is what my bug is all about; >> uxterm should not be the default for x-terminal-emulator. (I've retitled >> the bug to make it clearer.) > In that case, it's not a bug against xterm, but against whatever > meta-package owns "x-terminal-emulator".
>From xterms postinst: update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm 20 (...) update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm 30 (...) I don't see how anything but xterm is supposed to change this situation. AFAIK no package "owns" an alternative per se, but I might be wrong here; my understanding of this was that by default, whatever alternative has the highest priority is selected as the alternative in use. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/