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.

Jeremy
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