Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:34:45 +0000 From: Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Still can't get color in xterm properly. Message-ID: <20020114173445.GA4614@rhadamanth> In-Reply-To: <20020114170518.GA7846@debian.local> References: <20020114170518.GA7846@debian.local>
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 05:05:18PM +0000, 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 $HOME/.profile or in /etc/profile it causes wrong symbols
> to appear in the consoles and doesn't work in X.
>
> Where is one supposed to put it so that it is the default for X?
This looks like you want something more like :
if [ "$TERM" == "xterm" ]; then
export TERM=xterm-color
fi
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