From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 29 18:15: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oracle.clara.net (oracle.clara.net [195.8.69.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A3837B71B for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:14:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@clara.co.uk) Received: from [213.253.39.138] (helo=myname.my.domain) by oracle.clara.net with esmtp (Exim 3.11 #5) id 14ioRB-0009CL-00; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 03:14:54 +0100 Received: (from alex@localhost) by myname.my.domain (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f2U2Fd707628; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 03:15:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from alex) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 03:15:39 +0100 From: "Aleksandar Simic'" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Dan Busarow Subject: Re: Which TERM do you recommend ? Message-ID: <20010330031539.A7594@frustum.clara.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Aleksandar Simic' , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Dan Busarow References: <20010330015615.A452@frustum.clara.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from dan@dpcsys.com on Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 05:41:56PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Good point Dan. Now if I invoke xterm in X, I supply the terminal type specificly with -tn, eg. xterm -tn xterm-color -sb. Thanks, --Alex On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 05:41:56PM -0800, Dan Busarow wrote: > On Mar 30, Aleksandar Simic' wrote: > >when I'm working at the console cons25 seems to be efficient, > >especially when using mutt & slrn. > > > >But once I start up X, and try to use slrn & mutt in xterm, with > >cons25 defined as the TERM, text becomes slightly garbled. If I define > >TERM as xterm, then it works in Xterm(the terminal emulator),even > > Don't define TERM in your .profile/.login. Let it take care of > itself. > > See the comment in the default .profile > > # Setting TERM is normally done through /etc/ttys. Do only override > # if you're sure that you'll never log in via telnet or xterm or a > # serial line. > # Use cons25l1 for iso-* fonts > # TERM=cons25; export TERM > > Dan > -- > Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 > Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com > Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message