Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 09:44:00 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Andreas Ntaflos <ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to set env. vars when starting X? Message-ID: <20011102094400.D3298@jonc.itouch> In-Reply-To: <20011101214056.A2603@Deadcell.ANT>; from ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:40:56PM %2B0100 References: <20011101214056.A2603@Deadcell.ANT>
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:40:56PM +0100, Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
> 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?
Create a ~/.Xdefaults file with the following line in it:
xterm*termName: xterm-color
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Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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