Re: xterm won't start

Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:

> I've had a pty-related error with xterm on PowerPC in the past. I had
> to use the following workaround in my app-defaults file for XTerm:

I don't think it is related (it's a different error code).

> ! On ay (PPC), ones needs to set eightBitInput to true to avoid the error
> ! "xterm: fatal pty error 23 (errno=22) on tty /dev/pts/...". Therefore
> ! metaSendsEscape needs to be set to true, to allow non-ASCII characters.
> *metaSendsEscape: true
> *eightBitInput: true

I addressed this in

Patch #201 - 2005/4/21 - XFree86 4.5.99.2

• ignore error in the I/O initialization that tries to set the tty to 7-bit input for the case where eightBitInput resource is false (Debian #298551).

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