From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 14 9:17: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B755F37B417 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:17:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:16:52 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16QAj0-0003OP-00; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:16:46 +0000 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:16:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: To: Anthony Campbell Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Still can't get color in xterm properly. In-Reply-To: <20020114170518.GA7846@debian.local> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I can set > > TERM=xterm-color; export TERM > > In an xterm window and it will work for that window, but not in others. > If I put it in $HOME/.profile or in /etc/profile it causes wrong symbols > to appear in the consoles and doesn't work in X. > > Where is one supposed to put it so that it is the default for X? .xinitrc or .xsession -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk printf 'cat\nhello world' | `sh -c 'read c; echo $c'` To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message