Changing xfterm color or running xterm

Jack Coates jack at monkeynoodle.org
Thu Jan 9 05:39:51 CET 2003


On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 18:31, Heiko Berges wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 08:28:51PM -0800, Jack Coates wrote:
> > 
> > xfterm just runs xterm. edit your .bash_profile and set the environment
> 
> .bash_profile is not a really good idea, because bash is not the
> default shell for all users or on all systems.

I tend to assume that anyone smart enough to be mucking with alternate
window managers is smart enough to figure out what shell they're using,
too.

> 
> 
> > variable TERMCMD to whatever you want, e.g.:
> > export TERMCMD='aterm +sb -fg grey -tr --shading 50'
> 
> Where does this variable come from / where is it evaluated?

comes from wherever you set variables in the shell of your choice, is
evaluated in xfterm.

> 
> 
> 	Heiko
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