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

[Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org>]

On lun, 2011-12-05 at 21:17 -0500, Michael Welsh Duggan wrote:
> md5i@maru:/usr/local/home/md5i$ xprop WM_CLASS
> WM_CLASS(STRING) = "xterm", "XTerm"
> md5i@maru:/usr/local/home/md5i$ ls /usr/share/applications/*xterm*.desktop
> /usr/share/applications/debian-uxterm.desktop
> /usr/share/applications/debian-xterm.desktop

"xterm" does not match "debian-xterm", looks like that's the source of
the problem.
(A crude workaround would be to symlink debian-xterm.desktop
to /usr/share/applications/xterm.desktop)

Florian