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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] grc hardcoded to use xterm as a terminal emulator


From: Marcus D. Leech
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] grc hardcoded to use xterm as a terminal emulator?
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:00:04 -0500
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On 12/09/2011 02:42 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
Hi,

I just noticed that grc/python/Generator.py is hardcoded to use xterm as
a terminal emulator. This is somewhat problematic [1] for me so I'd like
to make it configurable, how would you rather see that done? Would
adding a new option (like "no_gui_terminal_emulator") to the flowchart
be too messy?

Use an environment variable?

There's already a GRC "prefs" support for the Gnu Radio preferences file that's
  normally located in:

~/.gnuradio/config.conf

And .../grc/python/Constants.py already extracts a value for 'doc_dir' from the Gnu Radio preferences file. That would seem to be a good potential place to do that work.



[1] xterm in ubuntu lucid is still sgid=utmp which causes it to drop
LD_LIBRARY_PATH which I need since I've installed gnuradio to a
temporary location. xterm also does not support pretty scrollbars that
my users expect and does not support freedesktop.org style clipboard
behavior (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588785)
unless I tell them to start xclipboard separately and then tell them to
add some X resources...

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