xfterm4 bug?

[Alexander Toresson]

On 12/12/05, Paul Tansom <paul at aptanet.com> wrote:
> ** Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> [2005-12-12 16:54]:
> > On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Paul Tansom wrote:
> > > I've recently started using xfterm4 instead of just xterm and seem to
> > > have a slight bug in the settings. I'm not entirely sure whether it is
> > > application specific though.
> >
> > xfterm4 = xterm
> >
> > So unless you've set something specific to change that, whatever issue
> > you're experiencing is an xterm issue.  At any rate, there is no xfterm4
> > binary, just a shell script.
> ** end quote [Net Llama!]
>
> True it is a script, but it is doing more than just starting xterm. I
> have no problems with a raw xterm. The xfterm4 script adds tab
> capabilities and a menu with configuration options amongst other things,
> so something in there is causing the issue. I've not had the chance to
> investigate and just wondered whether anyone else had seen the problem.
> This is not an xterm issue since the same command line with xterm
> instead of xfterm4 works fine.
>

This is a bug in the terminal that xfterm4 starts, not xfterm4. Please
try to interpret the script and see what terminal it's starting.

Regards, Alexander Toresson