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Re: xterm is a console program?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 17:48:12 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: xterm is a console program?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 19 May 2003, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> Early Ehlinger wrote:
>
> > it wouldn't make sense
> > to modify every single X clients' source base (way too many of them around).
> > Perhaps it should go in the x client library's startup code?
>
> Great! With this you'd break a lot of programs which output information
> to the console like xev, xprop, showfont.
>
> Also this is an evil hack since X11 initalization has nothing to do with
> the removal of the console and causes only confusion.
Exactly!
Why not simply document "run" better?
Igor
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