<html><head></head><body>Sorry, I have to agree with them. Your use case is... pretty much obsolete, at least in my opinion.<br>
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I can honestly say that I haven't even cared, never mind *needed* to, use write(1) to reach a locally-logged-in user running a local X terminal since 1993, when I left the UofM at a time when people still did stuff like run X apps remotely from multiple systems. This is a real world example of <a href="https://xkcd.com/1172">https://xkcd.com/1172</a>/ from my perspective.<br>
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I use write *very* occasionally on systems where I know everyone has SSH'd in. Maybe once a year. They could deprecate write(1) and wall(8) altogether and I wouldn't shed many tears.<br>
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Having said that, yes getting working code deleted out from under you is really, really annoying. Especially from a group that navel-gazes and doesn't attempt to find out usage levels first.<br>
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OpenBSD, for example, deletes a *ton* of legacy code on a regular basis. But if you follow the mailing lists, you always have a say, your voice gets heard. Maybe ignored, but heard :-). Several times in my memory, they've refactored code instead of deleting it when 2 or 3 people politely objected.<br>
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Anyway, I don't have a neat solution wrapped up for you, sorry. I finally gave up on Linux as a desktop last year, and I was using gnome terminal to the bitter end (and not caring whether it wrote to utmp/wtmp or not <grin>).<br>
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-Adam<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On July 3, 2017 1:44:16 AM CDT, Trevor Cordes <trevor@tecnopolis.ca> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 2017-07-02 Adam Thompson wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Surely *one* of them will meet your needs? And if not those, "dnf<br /> search terminal" should return about a hundred more.<br /></blockquote><br />I guess I should have reworded my question to: what's your favorite<br />terminal, and can you quickly check if it does my 3 must-have<br />requirements. Ya, a bit lazy on my part, but also good to see what the<br />MUUG old hands have decided/perfected over the years.<br /><br />I've tried a few other terms over the years, but they always lack one<br />of my must-haves or have some major flaw. g-t is actually *very* nice,<br />if they would just stop deleting code (the cause of every grievance I've<br />ever filed)!!!<br /><br />This, from the gnome bz I referenced, sums out their attitude: "decide<br />which ones are still relevant on _modern systems_, and remove the rest".<br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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