Re: Why do XTerms behave so badly in the Gnome Shell?

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

Let's try something else:

open up an xterm, use xprop to inspect the WM_CLASS

$ xprop WM_CLASS
... click on xterm ...

Now:

$ ls /usr/share/applications/*xterm*.desktop

Do the two filenames match?

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i md5i com> wrote:
> Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i md5i com> writes:
>
>> "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>
>> writes:
>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Michael Welsh Duggan
>>> <md5i md5i com> wrote:
>>>> Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i md5i com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>
>>>>> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This means the app tracking isn't working. Try something like this in
>>>>>> the looking glass and tell me what it says (make sure that all your
>>>>>> xterm windows have "xterm" somewhere in the title!):
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Shell.WindowTracker.get_default().get_window_app([x for each(x in
>>>>>> global.get_window_actors()) if
>>>>>> (x.meta_window.get_title().indexOf("xterm") >
>>>>>> 0)][0].meta_window).get_id()
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, this particular invocation ends up resulting in an error, but
>>>>> that's because indexOf("xterm") is equal to 0 for all the windows in
>>>>> question.  If I change this to >= 0, the return value is window:3.
>>>
>>> That means it's window-backed. How are you starting XTerm?
>>
>> The first time I started an XTerm, I used Alt-F2 xterm RET.  Future
>> xterms were usually started from existing xterms (though not always).
>> When I log off, I usually do not manually shut down my existing xterms.
>> Thus when I log back in, they are re-started automatically.  Thus I have
>> some number of persistent xterms, session to session.
>
> No further word on this?  I'm happy to give more data.
>
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  Jasper