ok, my mistake. i thought it was a type of an xterm. clearly
that was wrong :)
denis
* Tim Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [09-Thu-01 16:47 -0700]:
>
>I think you're confused as to what gkrellm is. The website is www.gkrellm.net
>
>Essentially it's a system monitor that has the capability to check mail (as well
>as a few other things), either locally or remotely. In my case I have it call
>'fetchmail' every 10 minutes. It checks my local mailbox every 5 seconds for new
>mail. When there's mail I have the option of calling a mail reader. So I pop up
>an Eterm and run mutt.
>
>Thus, there would not be a TERM=gkrellm; it doesn't make sense.
>
>
>tw
>
>
>Le jour Thu Sep 06, 2001 at 01:55:34PM -0700, Denis Perelyubskiy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>a écrit...
>
>> * Tim Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [09-Thu-01 10:18 -0700]:
>> >
>> >I think that the problem is in my /etc/profile
>> >
>> >if [ "$COLORTERM" = "Eterm" ]; then
>> > TERM=xterm-color
>> >else
>> > TERM=linux
>> >fi
>> >
>> >This may be what is throwing off the TERM var. Because
>> >when I comment out the wait line, mutt comes up in mono
>> >again.
>> >
>> >any suggestions?
>>
>> maybe something along the lines of
>>
>> if [ "$COLORTERM" = "Eterm" ]; then
>> TERM=xterm-color
>> elif [ "$TERM" = "gkrellm" ]; then
>> TERM=xterm-color
>> else
>> TERM=linux
>> fi
>>
>> i am not too good with bash in general. i just go try to
>> figure out things i need wheni need them :)
>>
>> also, check what $TERM var says when you log in using your
>> gkrellm. that test in 'elif' may need to be modified if TERM
>> is not gkrellm
>>
>> also, neither do i know if this is an *official* bash way,
>> but things like these work in my startup files, even though
>> maybe they disgust people who really know bash :)
>>
>> denis
>>
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