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- Debian README for xterm package
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- Newcomers to the X Window System should first read the Debian X FAQ
- (Frequently Asked Questions list): /usr/share/doc/x11-common/FAQ.gz.
- You can view this file with your favorite pager program after decompressing
- it. For example:
- $ zcat /usr/share/doc/x11-common/FAQ.gz | pager
-
- As of version 3.3.4-1, xterm logs to the wtmp and lastlog files. If you do
- not have a utmp group on your system, xterm will be installed setuid root
- instead of setgid utmp. xterm drops its root privileges after it
- initializes, so if it is setuid this can result in corrupt wtmp entries.
- The best thing to do is make a utmp group in /etc/group, or upgrade to
- version 2.0.3.4 or later of the base-passwd package, so that you have a
- utmp group.
-
- The xterm terminal type on a Debian system is an alias for xterm-debian.
- This means that "xterm" and "xterm-debian" are interchangeable as values of
- the $TERM environment variable in the shell. Since the xterm-debian type
- is typically not found on non-Debian systems, xterm is used as the system
- default.
-
- The terminal description for xterm-debian differs from that of
- xterm-xorg in exactly two respects:
- 1. kbs is defined as ^? (ASCII 127), not ^H (ASCII 8)
- 2. kdch1 is defined as the sequence: ^[ [ 3 ~ (no spaces, and ^[ is ASCII
- 27, a.k.a ESCAPE) instead of ^? (ASCII 127)
- ^[[3~ is the DEC VT220 escape sequence for the keypad delete key (not the
- numeric keypad, the one with Page Up, Page Down, etc. on a PC keyboard).
- DEC VT100's, the text terminal wich xterm was designed to emulate, had no
- keypad delete key. ^[[3~ is also what the Linux console terminal type
- generates for the keypad delete key. Note that the terminal definitions
- that a Debian system uses are in the ncurses-term package, not in the xterm
- package itself, though the (pre-compiled) terminfo and termcap files that
- Debian uses may be found in the xterm documentation directory,
- /usr/share/doc/xterm. People interested in reading further to stock up
- ammo for their backspace/delete and terminal type wars should consult Tom
- Dickey's (current maintainer of the xterm source code) FAQ, available in
- the file /usr/share/doc/xterm/xterm.faq{html,text.gz} and the website
- <http://vt100.net>.
-
- The default keymappings for xterm are different than they are upstream to
- comply with the Debian Keyboard Policy and make xterm's behavior more
- consistent with the Linux virtual console (and therefore with the behavior
- of DEC VT 220 terminals).
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- $Id: xterm.README.Debian 3971 2006-11-08 05:45:57Z julien $
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