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Date:      Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:18:08 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au>
To:        Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
Cc:        "xfce@freebsd.org" <xfce@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: XFCE terminal + utempter
Message-ID:  <2EB0F6D9-720E-4B19-AA38-A0F93C53D1C7@dons.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <39ebecbb-5839-0d88-b1ad-01ed4ddd4ec9@madpilot.net>
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> On 20 Apr 2021, at 20:12, Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> wrote:
>=20
> On 20/04/21 09:57, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>>> On 20 Apr 2021, at 17:14, Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> wrote:
>>> On 20/04/21 04:56, Daniel O'Connor via freebsd-xfce wrote:
>>> Just looking at the xfce4-terminal configure file I'm not sure how =
you got it working though, since the configure file does not look for =
the correct library on FreeBSD. ( at least according to =
utempter_add_record(3) )
>> Yes, I was a bit confused about that too, however it works in =
practise.
>=20
> I found out we do have a link from libutempter to libulog, so this =
explains how it can compile and run.

Ahh that would explain it.

>>> Please notice I am not an expert on utmp/wtmp/utmpx and such so I'm =
not sure of the implications right away, I need research to get a clear =
understanding.
>>>=20
>>> Anyway I can do some testing, but I'd rather avoid any default =
behaviour changes, so I'd evaluate adding this as an option turned off =
by default.
>> Even if it is compiled in it is still off until the user enables in =
the preferences window.
>=20
> I noticed. I'm proceeding with some testing, I'm now convinced that =
turning this on is the correct thing to do.

Great :)

--
Daniel O'Connor
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
 -- Andrew Tanenbaum




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