--On 25 October 2005 05:10 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I'd like to do is have my TERM environment variable set to wsvt25 for all users forever, and XTERM set to xterm-xfree86 for all users forever.
The environment variable is still called TERM in X.
I've grepped through /etc and I can't find where environment variables are set, either. So (my user account shell is bash) I set TERM=wsvt25 in .bash_profile, and when I login I get the "declare ...." messages, but it ignores TERM and XTERM that I set, with TERM set to vt220.
I don't know bash well but in ksh, you need to make the xterm a login shell in order to use .profile (by setting loginShell resource to true, or using -ls in the xterm command line). Displaying some output will prove whether it's being run.
Also, did you remember to export the variable?
I like colorls and color syntax highlighting when using emacs on a console, so that's why I want wsvt25.
You might be able to use some xterm variant at the console too, actually. Works for me with mutt on the console of a Zaurus..
