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Re: appearance of xfce on Debian



On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 10:06:19AM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 09:27:48AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> > On 14/06/02 Eric G. Miller did speaketh:
> > 
> > > Log out from X and edit it from a console session.  My guess is
> > > your editing it from within an xfce session, and your changes are
> > > getting clobbered when you end the session.
> > 
> >     Agreed. I tried this and it worked. Note that the first two numbers are
> > the coordinates, I believe. I just zeroed those and then it appeared in the
> > top level corner. You can then reach the panels on the sides and move it to
> > its proper location. 
> > 
> >     Now if only someone would explain why the colours in my xterm are
> > different in XFCE...
> 
> I believe that if you use xfterm ( a wrapper script that calls xter) the
> xterm defaults are not read. ??
> 
Correction. xfterm called x-terminal-emulator.
Put this in your .bashrc :

export TERMCMD=xterm

everything goes back to normal defaults.

-- 
Kevin C. Smith           | "A Society that will trade a little liberty for a
smithkevinc@mchsi.com    | little order will lose both, and deserve neither."
Debian GNU/Linux (sid)   |                                -- Thomas Jefferson


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