On 12/2/05, Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can see scripts which add "xterm-color" to my exports > (eg. /etc/profile.d/tinker-term.sh) but I can't seem to get them to work > - if I do "export TERM=xterm-color" then open a new xterm, still no > color. > I can't see the relationships going on here, any hints? > When you export an environnement variable, it becomes available to child processes. If you open a new xterm, it will still have the old value. What you would do is look in the startup files (eg .bashrc, .bash_profile) and add the same line (export TERM=xterm-color) so everytime you start a new shell the TERM will be set.
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