xterm is a console program?

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Mon, 19 May 2003, Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> 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.

Exactly!

Why not simply document "run" better?
	Igor
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