Should we keep xfterm4

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Mon Oct 23 22:23:30 CEST 2006


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Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>>> Now that both exo and Terminal are part of xfce, what's the use of
>>> xfterm4 anymore?
>>>
>>> xfterm4 is a derivative of xfterm, a simple shell wrapper I added in
>>> xfce 3.x maybe 6 or 7 years ago...
>>>
>>> Let's get rid of it. At last as it is right now. Let just keep a wrapper
>>> to "exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator"...
> 
> I forgot to mention that the current implementation fails because of the
> "$ESTRING" and causes the following error...
> 
> Option "--execute/-x" requires specifying the command to run on the rest
> of the command line
> 
> So we need to do something about that anyway, thus my proposal to over
> simplify xfterm4.

Ok, I've commited my changes/fixes, these scripts are deprecated anyway.

Cheers,
Olivier.
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