Bug#1052248: xterm not found in gui (Gnome) applications

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>]

Package: xterm
Version: 384-1
Severity: normal

I want to be able to open an xterm from my desktop environment (which
happens to be Gnome 45).  But xterm is missing from the list of known GUI
applications.

Actually the problem is a little worse than that: there is a entry
labelled "Xterm standard terminal emulator for the X Window System",
but when I click on it loads up "Gnome Software" tool showing the
xterm information page, instead of opening xterm itself.

For context, gnome-terminal (which I would normally use from Gnome) is
actually broken at the moment and crashes every 5 minutes. So I NEED
to be able to access the alternative X terminals.

xterm does provide /usr/share/applications/debian-xterm.desktop which
sets Exec=xterm, so Gnome should be able to launch it. I'm not sure if
the problem meas there's a syntax error in the desktop file.  Maybe
it's a bug in Gnome.

For reference, I should compare this bug report against #645736.  What
645736 is asking is diameterically the opposite of what I mean. In my
opinion the request of #645736 is categorically wrong.  If I've
installed software and it has a desktop entry, I want to be able to
see that software in the list of GUI applications.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6           2.37-10
ii  libfontconfig1  2.14.2-6
ii  libfreetype6    2.13.2+dfsg-1
ii  libice6         2:1.0.10-1
ii  libtinfo6       6.4+20230625-2
ii  libutempter0    1.2.1-3
ii  libx11-6        2:1.8.6-1
ii  libxaw7         2:1.0.14-1
ii  libxext6        2:1.3.4-1+b1
ii  libxft2         2.3.6-1
ii  libxinerama1    2:1.1.4-3
ii  libxmu6         2:1.1.3-3
ii  libxpm4         1:3.5.12-1.1
ii  libxt6          1:1.2.1-1.1
ii  xbitmaps        1.1.1-2.2

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  x11-utils  7.7+5

Versions of packages xterm suggests:
pn  xfonts-cyrillic  <none>

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