On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 02:45:32PM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 18/07/18 11:05 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:24:45AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > What terminal program are you using? Is the behavior the same if you > > fire up slrn in xterm, rxvt, and gnome-terminal? (to pick three > > wildly different code bases) > > Good call, sir! Indeed, when I did the fresh install of Stretch, > the default terminal run from the panel (exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator) > had changed to gnome-terminal. A bit of web searching came up with the > exo-preferred-application command, which let me re-configure the default > terminal emulator to Xfce Terminal. All is well again. Thanks! > > (Do the Gnome people like pastels?)
As far as I can tell, the guiding principle of the GNOME project these days is "I like it, so that's what you should use." Only I don't like it. Luckily, we live in a world full of choices, and the decision to use a particular desktop environment (or not) is reasonably easy to change. I like XFCE, urxvt, and vim and mutt and slrn. Other people can have different preferences, and that's just fine. -dsr-
