Why xorg-x11 ebuild impose XTerm?

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gentoosiast · Post by **gentoosiast** » Sun May 21, 2006 10:10 pm

Can anybody explain why x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 (stable version) requires x11-terms/xterm? I'm prefer using x11-terms/rxvt-unicode as VT. Why portage team won't make it possible (virtual/terminal)? Thanks!

rhill · Post by **rhill** » Sun May 21, 2006 10:17 pm

it gets pulled in by xinit, basically to have a fallback. a lot of programs expect xterm to be installed, even if you use another console. it's not a virtual because there's no reason you can't have more than one terminal program installed.

coolsnowmen · Post by **coolsnowmen** » Sun May 21, 2006 10:18 pm

If you had no other window manager, you know how X comes with xdm which starts X's default window manager (cant think of the name right now but its ugly blue green and starts three terminals, and when you start a program it makes you click where to place it)?
that requires Xterm.

Edit it might be called XWM, but thats just a guess I'ld have to check when I get back to my linux machine.

UncleOwen · Post by **UncleOwen** » Sun May 21, 2006 10:21 pm

pigeon768 · Post by **pigeon768** » Sun May 21, 2006 10:59 pm

xterm I can see, because yes, lots of programs expect xterm, (but still, those packages should depend on xterm, not xinit- unless xinit does depend on xterm?) but I don't understand why twm is brought in by xorg. Nobody uses twm, even as a 'lightweight' wm, because it's less lightweight than wm's like flux or openbox.

gentoosiast · Post by **gentoosiast** » Mon May 22, 2006 3:43 am

dirtyepic wrote:it gets pulled in by xinit, basically to have a fallback. a lot of programs expect xterm to be installed, even if you use another console. it's not a virtual because there's no reason you can't have more than one terminal program installed.

'ln -s urxvt xterm' in this case will be more than enough. Yes, I can have many terminal emulators installed side by side, but I think it's not good idea anyway.