#629233 ssvnc: Depend on x-terminal-emulator

Package:
ssvnc
Source:
ssvnc
Description:
Enhanced TightVNC viewer with SSL/SSH tunnel helper
Submitter:
Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Date:
2011-10-15 17:57:03 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#629233#5
Date:
2011-06-04 16:37:42 UTC
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If possible, please depend on x-terminal-emulator instead of xterm, so I can
uninstalling the latter while keeping ssvnc. I use mrxvt, and have no direct
need for xterm. Does ssvnc really need xterm exactly?

Best regards
Torquil Sørensen
#629233#10
Date:
2011-06-10 16:39:45 UTC
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As an aside (i.e. independent of a distro's dependencies), the environment
variable SSVNC_XTERM_REPLACEMENT can be set to a different terminal
emulator (one can also set this variable in ~/.ssvncrc) See Help -> Tip 15
for more info.

Karl
#629233#15
Date:
2011-10-09 20:41:00 UTC
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Yes and no, I suppose. Debian policy only states three requirements for x-
terminal-emulator providers: being able to emulate a VT100 terminal,
supporting the -e option, and supporting the -T option. ssvnc uses additional
options and X resources that other x-terminal-emulator providers don't
understand, but I'm not sure how important those are.
#629233#20
Date:
2011-10-09 20:44:23 UTC
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But is it necessary to create wrapper scripts on the fly (in a manner that I'm
not entirely sure is secure) and execute those?
#629233#25
Date:
2011-10-15 15:29:32 UTC
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I guess to remove the xterm dependency there would be a debian patch that
modifies the wrapper(s) to set SSVNC_XTERM_REPLACEMENT=x-terminal-emulator
if it wasn't already externally set by the user.  Hmmm, without looking
at the scripts I'm not sure how that would interact with a ~/.ssvncrc
setting though, but that would be easy to test.
#629233#30
Date:
2011-10-15 17:56:07 UTC
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That alone wouldn't work, would it? The wrapper scripts are only run if
SSVNC_XTERM_REPLACEMENT isn't set in the first place.