From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 29 18:48:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from java2.dpcsys.com (java2.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4463837B778 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:48:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by java2.dpcsys.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2U2kdc14215; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:46:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:46:39 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: "Aleksandar Simic'" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which TERM do you recommend ? In-Reply-To: <20010330031539.A7594@frustum.clara.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mar 30, Aleksandar Simic' wrote: >Now if I invoke xterm in X, I supply the terminal type specificly with >-tn, eg. xterm -tn xterm-color -sb. You don't even need to do that, unless you want xterm-color instead of xterm. xterm itself will set TERM to xterm by default. 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 >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