Bug#1125682: xterm sessions do not appear in loginctl output

Thomas Dickey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.x
Message-ID <aYPv4DrC-QPM5H_M__23722.7658320748$1770254485$gmane$org@prl-debianold-64.jexium-island.net>
On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 07:58:56PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 02:13:09PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2026-02-04 12:40:00 +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > > This is your assessment of things. It is still unknown if xterm 
> > > needs any changes or not. I'll defer to the xterm author for this.
> > 
> > If xterm does not need any change, then what is the cause of the
> > issue?
> 
> Basically, removing utmp breaks any user of libtempter.
> (apt-cache says there are a few others than xterm).
> 
> So... I'll have to investigate and see if the advice in #1072235 was useful.
 
not useful.

See the response in #1085889

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Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
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