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

2006-04-21 Thread Jens Peter Secher 
On 4/21/06, Ryan Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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?
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Bug#270374: Patch to use x-terminal-emulator instead of xterm

2006-04-20 Thread Jens Peter Secher 
In addition to the patch below, all xterm in Xsession should be
replaced by x-terminal-emulator.

Cheers,
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--- daemon/slave.c~ 2006-04-20 21:52:26.0 +0200
+++ daemon/slave.c  2006-04-20 22:16:00.0 +0200
@@ -3573,13 +3573,13 @@
argv[0] = find_prog (gnome-session);
if G_UNLIKELY (argv[0] == NULL) {
/* yaikes */
-   gdm_error (_(%s: gnome-session not found for a 
failsafe GNOME session; trying xterm),
+   gdm_error (_(%s: gnome-session not found for a 
failsafe GNOME session; trying x-terminal-emulator),
   session_child_run);
session = GDM_SESSION_FAILSAFE_XTERM;
gdm_error_box
(d, GTK_MESSAGE_ERROR,
 _(Could not find the GNOME installation.  
-  Running the \Failsafe xterm\ 
+  Running the \Failsafe 
x-terminal-emulator\ 
   session instead.));
} else {
argv[1] = --failsafe;
@@ -3598,10 +3598,10 @@
/* an if and not an else, we could have done a fall-through
 * to here in the above code if we can't find gnome-session */
if (strcmp (session, GDM_SESSION_FAILSAFE_XTERM) == 0) {
-   argv[0] = find_prog (xterm);
+   argv[0] = find_prog (x-terminal-emulator);
if (argv[0] == NULL) {
gdm_error_box (d, GTK_MESSAGE_ERROR,
-  _(Cannot find \xterm\ to start 
+  _(Cannot find \x-terminal-emulator\ 
to start 
 a failsafe session.));
/* nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah */
/* 66 means no session crashed examine 
.xsession-errors dialog */
@@ -3620,7 +3620,7 @@
   if you cannot log in any other way.  
   To exit the terminal emulator, type 
   'exit' and an enter into the window.));
-   focus_first_x_window (xterm);
+   focus_first_x_window (x-terminal-emulator);
}
failsafe = TRUE;
} 


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

2006-04-20 Thread Ryan Murray 
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:17:22PM +0200, Jens Peter Secher wrote:
 In addition to the patch below, all xterm in Xsession should be
 replaced by x-terminal-emulator.

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


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