XFCE terminal + utempter

[Daniel O'Connor]

> On 20 Apr 2021, at 20:12, Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net> wrote:
> 
> On 20/04/21 09:57, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>>> On 20 Apr 2021, at 17:14, Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net> wrote:
>>> On 20/04/21 04:56, Daniel O'Connor via freebsd-xfce wrote:
>>> Just looking at the xfce4-terminal configure file I'm not sure how you got it working though, since the configure file does not look for the correct library on FreeBSD. ( at least according to utempter_add_record(3) )
>> Yes, I was a bit confused about that too, however it works in practise.
> 
> I found out we do have a link from libutempter to libulog, so this explains how it can compile and run.

Ahh that would explain it.

>>> Please notice I am not an expert on utmp/wtmp/utmpx and such so I'm not sure of the implications right away, I need research to get a clear understanding.
>>> 
>>> Anyway I can do some testing, but I'd rather avoid any default behaviour changes, so I'd evaluate adding this as an option turned off by default.
>> Even if it is compiled in it is still off until the user enables in the preferences window.
> 
> I noticed. I'm proceeding with some testing, I'm now convinced that turning this on is the correct thing to do.

Great :)

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