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On 2016-12-19 09:54, Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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> Maybe you emerged the meta package x11-base/xorg-x11 ? |
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Right, I did. |
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> >Lastly, not what you've asked but a friendly suggestion: consider |
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> >dropping xterm and adopting rxvt, especially rxvt-unicode. |
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> Why? Does urxvt has a "secure mode"? (which was the point, after all) |
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> I browsed the man page and didn't find it. |
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You're right, rxvt doesn't do that. I never (well, almost never) enter |
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passwords into a terminal box - everything that needs passwords calls |
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pinentry which, as was pointed out in the other thread, does its own |
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keyboard grab. |
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I use rxvt because it doesn't have a huge part that nobody uses. |
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> I used urxvt for some time years ago, but got disappointed, can't |
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> remember why (And to boot, the author said Linux *should* be called |
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> GNU/Linux! ) |
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I missed the smiley here. |
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