From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 22 11:12:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D865337B43C for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:12:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 21292 invoked by uid 100); 22 Apr 2001 18:12:37 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15075.7957.322616.324648@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 13:12:37 -0500 To: Schlenker Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XTERM In-Reply-To: <121956176@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Schlenker types: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Robert T.G. Tan wrote: > > Where does TERM get set, if not in ~/.*rc, or /etc/whatever-default-configs > > Like most Un*x progs it reads is configuration from ~/.Xdefaults. A > friends .Xdefaults looks like the following (Thank you Timon): Very few Unix progs read ~/.Xdefaults. It's an X thing, and only looked at by X programs - if they bother. Personally, I never use ~/.Xdefaults; I use ~/.Xresources and XAPPLRESDIR. The TERM variable is initialized by the program that creates the user session (typically login) with the default value from /etc/ttys. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message