Re: xterm stops jobs writing to terminal (solved)

[Rupert Levene <r.levene@lancaster.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 21:26:32 -0600
bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx) wrote:

> Rupert <rupert.debian@hotpop.com> [2002-10-14 22:20:20 +0100]:
> >     XTerm*loginShell: true
> > 
> > that causes problems. I don't know why telling XTerm to use a login
> > shell gives rise to this strange behaviour, but it seems that it does.
> 
> Check your tty settings.  I am sure that when you compare a terminal
> that 'works' to one that does not you will find different settings.
> 
>   stty -a
> 
> Try setting this:
> 
>   stty -tostop
> 

Yes, that was it! There was a rogue line in my ~/.bash_profile. 

Many thanks.

Rupert