From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 1 12:41: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C556A37B401 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 12:41:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 25054 invoked by uid 0); 1 Nov 2001 20:40:59 -0000 Received: from tk212017108240.univie.teleweb.at (HELO Deadcell.ANT) (212.17.108.240) by mail.gmx.net (mp007-rz3) with SMTP; 1 Nov 2001 20:40:59 -0000 Received: (from ant@localhost) by Deadcell.ANT (8.11.5/8.11.5) id fA1KevM02624 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 21:40:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ant) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 21:40:56 +0100 From: Andreas Ntaflos To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: how to set env. vars when starting X? Message-ID: <20011101214056.A2603@Deadcell.ANT> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Platform: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE Hostname: Bender.ANT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, This may sound like, or be, a stupid question, but in order to be able to have xterms that support color output, you have to set the environment variable TERM to xterm-color for every xterm you start/have started (for example in .xinitrc). Now I was wondering how to set that variable everytime you start X for the xterms you run? thanks and regards -- Andreas "ant" Ntaflos ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net Vienna, AUSTRIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message