xfterm4 bug?

[Alexander Toresson]

On 12/12/05, Paul Tansom <paul at aptanet.com> wrote:
> ** Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson at gmail.com> [2005-12-12 17:35]:
> > 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.
> ** end quote [Alexander Toresson]
>
> Hmm, the first time I went round this loop (when I switched from xterm
> to xfterm4) I decided that, having followed the script through to other
> scripts and various environment variables and settings it was xfterm4
> was using xterm and wrapping things round it.
>
> This time round I've come to a different conclusion! After a very, very
> careful trace through and experiments with the TERMCMD setting I've
> concluded that xfterm4 is actually running Terminal, and this is doing
> all the fancy bits.
>
> So it looks to be the wrong question, but possibly the right list.
> Having checked the information on Terminal it is still part of XFCE4:
>
> ====
> Terminal 0.2.4 (Xfce 4.2.3.2)
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
> Sadly the reference web address doesn't appear to exist, so a quick trip
> to the www. address takes me through to BerliOS to set up an account
> (which I am sorting at the moment). Terminal doesn't appear to be listed
> when viewing the bug list though, so where I'll get to after the account
> is set up I've no idea!
>

The correct place to report bugs against terminal is
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/ (afaik).

Regards, Alexander Toresson