Bug#733323: rxvt-unicode-256color: urxvt spawns an extra process.
Hi Ryan, Thank you for the information. It was new to me. I can understand people wanting that utmp functionality, and I guess spawning the extra process is the way to handle this. However, on a system of which I am the only user, I am not really interested in that functionality. Is it not possible to configure the package so that the end user may choose if he wants that functionality or not? I am the kind of person that, when having several options available, I go for the solution that: i. gives me all the functionality I want/use ii. allows me to opt out of the functionality I do not want, without adding extra 'bloat'. Until I find a better solution, I get rid of the extra process by running the commands chgrp root /usr/bin/urxvt chmod g-s /usr/bin/urxvt Which, of course, I will have to repeat every time after installing a new version of the package. Regards, Jean-Pierre
Bug#733323: rxvt-unicode-256color: urxvt spawns an extra process.
Package: rxvt-unicode-256color Version: 9.19-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? upgrading rxvt-unicode-256color from version 9.18-3 to 9.19-1 * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Launch urxvt from command line or any other way: Every instance of urxvt now spawns 2 processes in stead of one. * What was the outcome of this action? urxvt window shows up as normal, but 'ps' or 'pstree' command shows 2 processes in stead of one, as was the case for version 9.18-3 * What outcome did you expect instead? One process per urxvt instance -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages rxvt-unicode-256color depends on: ii base-passwd 3.5.28 ii libc6 2.17-97 ii libfontconfig12.11.0-2 ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-1 ii libgcc1 1:4.8.2-10 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-02.28.2-1+b1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.36.4-1 ii libperl5.18 5.18.1-5 ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-3 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-1 ii libxft2 2.3.1-1 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.8-1 ii ncurses-term 5.9+20130608-1 Versions of packages rxvt-unicode-256color recommends: ii fonts-vlgothic [fonts-japanese-gothic] 20130607-1 ii ttf-dejavu 2.33+svn2514-3 rxvt-unicode-256color suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
