>>>>> J H M Dassen writes: > setterm does the following (near the end of setterm.c): vcterm = > !strncmp(term, "con", 3); which is used for the old style TERM > values (con80x25 etc.); in early 1.3 the default TERM changed to > "linux", so this should probably be: vcterm = !strcmp(term, > "linux"); Hmm, wouldn't it be better to use ioctls to check that the tty is truly a Linux console? Environment varibles are known to be unreliable! -Dominik