Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 12:42:25 +0200 From: Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> To: Daniel O'Connor <darius@dons.net.au> Cc: "xfce@freebsd.org" <xfce@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: XFCE terminal + utempter Message-ID: <39ebecbb-5839-0d88-b1ad-01ed4ddd4ec9@madpilot.net> In-Reply-To: <712C0AD2-EE1B-43C6-9853-C27B7BF834F6@dons.net.au> References: <C1C41EFF-C599-4BC2-83A5-F82704A66026@dons.net.au> <b1dff10f-53e5-3b08-31fe-6a5c7b06fbab@madpilot.net> <712C0AD2-EE1B-43C6-9853-C27B7BF834F6@dons.net.au>
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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. I found out we do have a link from libutempter to libulog, so this explains how it can compile and run. > >> 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. >> >> 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. > I noticed. I'm proceeding with some testing, I'm now convinced that turning this on is the correct thing to do. -- Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
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