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Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

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On 1/7/22, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 01:26:22PM -0500, Lee wrote:
>> so what are the downsides, if any, to replacing
>> /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal with the one I build from the xfce4-terminal
>> 0.9.1 source tarball?
>
> The biggest obvious flaw in doing this is that your custom local version
> will be overwritten the next time the xfce4-terminal package is updated.

Flaw or feature.. I see it as a feature :)  I'm running Debian Stable,
so the only reason that xfce4-terminal would be updated is a security
patch -- correct?   I will notice if right-click to paste breaks in
the terminal, so that's my prompt to get an updated version &
build/install that.

I did the same with another package - it got blown away when I
upgraded and I'd forgotten about replacing the stock program with my
later version, so there a minute of WTF? before grabbing the latest &
greatest, build & install.

> It would be better to put your custom local version in /usr/local/bin
> instead.  This should be before /usr/bin in the PATH variable, so your
> local version will be preferred by anything that doesn't use an explicit
> path.

Yeah.. I thought about that and I don't know how to update whatever it
is that sets the path for the xfce desktop.  Hence my question to the
list - am I missing something?  Because done & working is a pretty
compelling argument against maybe theoretical problems in the future.

> That said, I'm not an XFCE user, so I don't know how XFCE launches the
> terminal.

me either :)

> If there are pieces of XFCE that use "/usr/bin/xfce4-terminal"
> instead of "xfce4-terminal" to run the terminal, then that will cause an
> issue.

right - another unknown.  There's a  /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper
that starts off with
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
#
# Terminal.wrapper - Debian terminal wrapper script

which I don't know who calls or even why it exists.

Thanks
Lee

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downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2022-01-07 19:30 +0100
  Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-07 19:40 +0100
    Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2022-01-07 20:50 +0100
      Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-08 04:10 +0100
        Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2022-01-08 08:00 +0100
  Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> - 2022-01-07 20:50 +0100
    Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2022-01-07 21:20 +0100
      Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2022-01-08 00:20 +0100
        Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-08 02:10 +0100
          Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-08 04:10 +0100
          Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2022-01-08 13:20 +0100
    Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2022-01-07 21:40 +0100
  Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-01-07 21:20 +0100

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