> > The procedure would be to upload a new 'xterm' package which moves > > /usr/bin/xterm to /usr/bin/xterm.real and introduces /usr/bin/xterm
Of course, you mean /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm... > Mandrake did something like that a while ago(*) - broke the > application name for X resources. I was also going to point out the issue of X resources. While remaining in favor of fixing other applications rather than changing xterm, I would point out that this issue could be mitigated by having xterm be moved into another directory so its base name would be the same. (I suppose /usr/lib/xterm/xterm could work...) That said, I am not able to convince myself that this is an issue here... if I clear my X resources, set HOME to a temporary directory, copy /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm (as root, preserving setuid) to /tmp/xterm.real, and invoke /tmp/xterm.real, I see a client class of UXTerm and a client name of xterm. Maybe this is debian-specific? I thought only uxterm did that. -- Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ql.org/q/
