Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 22:31:24 +0200 (CEST) From: "A. L. Meyers" <a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: xterm-color (2nd posting) Message-ID: <20010713222908.W454-100000@consult-meyers.com> In-Reply-To: <86vgkxf4d1.fsf@hades.hell.gr>
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Giorgos,
Thanks a lot! It works perfectly.
Where is all this stuff documented in detail?
Greetings to the homeland of Aristotle from
Lucien
On 13 Jul 2001, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> "A. L. Meyers" <a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com> writes:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > This may be such a simple, stupid question that no one has
> > replied yet.
> >
> > How do I set up X to get TERM=xterm-color by default?
> >
> > The standard install makes me do
> >
> > export TERM=xterm-color
> >
> > every time I open a terminal in X.
>
> You can set up the XTerm resource *termName to have this automagically changed
> by xterm(1) every time you fire up an xterm. With my ~/.xinitrc file being:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
> usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
> sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
> sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
>
> test -f "${sysresources}" && xrdb -merge "${sysresources}"
> test -f "${userresources}" && xrdb -merge "${usersresources}"
>
> test -f "${sysmodmap}" && xmodmap "${sysmodmap}"
> test -f "${usermodmap}" && xmodmap "${usermodmap}"
>
> xset m 22/10 4
> xset +dpms
> xset dpms 300 1200 1800
> xset b 100 800 20
> xset r on
> xset r rate 250 30
>
> exec wmaker
>
> I can put the changes to ~/.Xresources. A part of this file looks like:
>
> % grep XTerm ~/.Xresources
> XTerm*background: #224477
> XTerm*foreground: #ffffff
> XTerm*colorULMode: off
> XTerm*font3: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-10-100-75-75-m-60-iso8859-1
> XTerm*font: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1
> XTerm*termName: xterm-color
>
> -giorgos
>
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