[bitbake-devel] hob2: make xterm automatically exit after qemu exits?

[Paul Eggleton]

On Saturday 07 April 2012 06:50:48 Wang, Shane wrote:
> Cui, Dexuan wrote on 2012-04-06:
> > Why do we use /usr/bin/xterm here by hardcode?
> > Can we change it to matchbox-terminal? Or, can we use some kind of
> > algorithm to determine the available terminal?
> 
> Is matchbox-terminal the minimal terminal on Linux distributions, compared
> with xterm? If so, we can replace xterm with that. Yes, we can, feature
> enhancement.

I don't think we can replace it as xterm is much more likely to be available 
than matchbox-terminal on standard desktop distros, but for self-hosted-image 
purposes it ought to be trivial to make it use matchbox-terminal as a fallback 
if xterm is unavailable.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre