xterm is a console program?

Alexander Gottwald Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
Mon May 19 21:40:00 GMT 2003


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.

bye
    ago
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