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Date:      Sat, 5 Aug 2000 01:17:50 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        David@SkytrackerCanada.com
Cc:        bsd <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Subject: setting of TERM variable in X
Message-ID:  <20000805011750.A239@parish>
In-Reply-To: <398B43E8.FD986CCC@www3.pacific-pages.com>; from David@www3.pacific-pages.com on Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 06:30:00PM -0400
References:  <398B43E8.FD986CCC@www3.pacific-pages.com>

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On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 06:30:00PM -0400, David Banning wrote:
> 
> My TERM variable is still set to cons25 even when I am in X
> How can I change to xterm - (other than doing it manually)
> 
> Is there a .profile type script for X which I could
> 'setenv TERM xterm' ?

Try adding this to ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources:

XTerm*TermName: xterm-color

remove ``-color'' if you really want a mono xterm :)

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