OK, that's fixed it now, thanks,
TERM=xterm
.. and testing on both remote Xterminal, local console, root user and normal
user is all OK now.
Indeed I was getting confused (as probably anyone who has tried to man X11)!
Cheers,
Jill.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 September 2001 17:08
> To: Jill Rowling; slug
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Remote X login on RH 7.1 - followup
>
>
> > if [ ! "$DISPLAY" = ":0" ] ; then
> > stty erase ^H
> > TERM=XTerm
> > export TERM
> > fi
> >
>
> Your getting a little confused, the terminal type is xterm
> (lowercase)
>
> The program called xterm (which does "xterm" emultation ) looks at
> /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm for its defaults
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