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On 8/24/2011 12:49 PM, Chris Larson wrote:
> Saul reminded me that I never sent a proper email to let people know about the
> usability change to devshell, so only those who reviewed the commits
> know about it.
>
> In the new implementation, a single OE_TERMINAL variable controls the behavior.
>
> When using 'auto', or requesting an unsupported terminal, we attempt to spawn
> them in priority order until we get one that's available on this system (and
> in the case of the X terminals, has DISPLAY defined).  The 'none' value is

is it 'none' or 'noop' ?

> used when we're doing things like automated builds, and want to ensure that no
> terminal is *ever* spawned, under any circumstances.
>
> Current available terminals (in addition to 'noop' and 'auto'):
>
>      gnome
>      konsole
>      xterm
>      rxvt
>      screen
>
> Examples:
>
>      OE_TERMINAL = "xterm"
>      OE_TERMINAL = "noop"