HACK:
Put export PAGER=less in your xinit.
Or better look how the xinit of your distribution is set up. Or
better exec your system-xinit-script at the last line of our own
xinit. (use exec not the plain command)
startx inhertis the environment of your login shell.
xdm does nit. xdm sets up its own onvornment.
. $home/.profile or . /etc/profile
or
. $HOME/.bashrc
would probably help. The later is not really the right way because it
is only meant to set the shell environment.
The esence of my answer is. Check what your distro does in xinit and
do it the distro-way. ;)
PS: Debian uses the alternatives system. Check update-alternatives
Am 11.03.2007 um 03:01 schrieb Jurjen Middendorp:
Hello, what is the difference between starting X with xdm and with
startx? When
i start X with the startx command, the pager which displays the
manuals works as
it should, but when i start ion with xdm the pager (less) exits
after it gets to
the last line, which is annoying if the page is smaller then 1
screen, because i
can't read that fast.
My .xsession and .xinit both end with these lines:
/usr/X11R6/bin/ion3 &
xmms &
xterm -name main &
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -name login
I don't have any less-environment or config options on and couldn't
find anywhere
if xdm changes some of those. So i don't understand why the pager
behaves differently
after i start X with xdm.
-greetings, jurjen
note: with pager i mean the pager that gets opened with the
mod_query.query_man()
