[desktop-discuss] xterm annoyance (changed behavior?)

[Alan Coopersmith]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 18/07/07, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
>> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> > Since I installed b68 today, it seems this no longer works.  I don't
>> > know why.
>>
>> We haven't changed xterm itself in quite a long time, but the xterm
>> termcap/terminfo in ON have recently been updated.  (We plan to replace
>> xterm with the X.Org/XFree86 xterm (the one maintained by Thomas Dickey)
>> at some point in the not-to-distant future, but haven't yet.)
> 
> What's the difference, if you have time to expound?

Between what we have now and the X.Org one?   Biggest difference is the X.Org
one is still maintained and enhanced - what we're shipping now is an old fork
of it made by li18nux.org which hasn't been updated in years.

I don't know the details about individual features off the top of my head - I'd
have to go compare our source against the feature list on
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.html

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