isn't xterm the 'de facto' standard? it would seem to me that any options xterm understands ought to be supported by x-terminal-emulator. If a certain terminal emulater is not xterm compatible, it would be trivial to provide an 'xterm compatibility wrapper', and have x-terminal-emulator point to that.
-brad On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 04:56:49PM -0800, Marc Martinez wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:17:21PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Can someone help me establish whether the existing X terminal emulators in > > Debian do in fact support all those options? If so, then it should be > > straightforward to make this requirement part of policy. > > > > To try to answer your question, my guess is that most, but not all, > > terminal emulators support these flags. > > rxvt's man page lists '-title' as the preferred switch, but also mentions > that -T is supported as well for compatibility. of the rxvt derivatives I > only have wterm installed presently, and while its manpage does not mention > the -T compatibility switch it does indeed honour it just like -title. > > both programs support -e as well. I'll let somebody else more familiar with > the others fill in the blanks (aterm, eterm, xvt, etc). > > Marc > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
