Changing xfterm color or running xterm

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Heiko Berges wrote:
> >>>> to my .bashrc , and sourced it, and even logged out a& back into XFCE, and
> >>>> still no change.
>
> TERMCMD must be exported from the environment xfce is started from, but
> you did not tell how you did start xfce (from xdm/kdm/gdm, from the
> commandline,..)  Please try this:
>
> 	Exit xfwm and X
>
> 	from the console in a bourneish shell:
>
> 	$ TERMCMD="whatever terminalemulator you want -all -fancy -options"
> 	$ export TERMCMD
> 	$ startxfce

I start it from KDM on one box, and GDM on another, and the results remain
the same.  TERMCMD is properly exported, yet xfce fails to recognize this.

>
>
> If you start xfce from a displaymanager you can export environment
> variables from xinitrc or set them in the resources file. (man xdm)

I suppose i could try this, but i don't understand why it would be
neccesary.


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