Maybe we can discuss an alternative approach here: - Would you accept a split of the xterm package in two parts: * xterm-bin * xeterm xterm-bin would contain the actual app, making it work on a regular system, as intended, as fallback xterm would contain the .desktop file and the corresponding icons. the above mentioned packages depending on xterm would be rewritten to depend on xterm-bin. As a aconsequence, a user installing xterm will always get the full package, including showing it in overview, no hiding, no mangling.