setting term

[Peeter Vois]

> I would like to be able to launch mc from the menu bar in xfce. If I run
> 'term mc' I get mc in an xterm. What I would like is for that command to
> launch mc in Eterm. How would I go about doing this? I tried putting
> export TERM=Eterm in my .xinitrc file, but that has no effect. 

I do not have Eterm installed but xterm has following option: 

xterm -e executable

will launch xterm and inside it the executable. Eterm --help might help.

Best Regards ...

      Peeter Vois
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