Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text?

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 07:30:42PM -0400, songbird wrote:
>> Richard Owlett wrote:
>> > The MATE terminal "Help"(sic) claims VT102 emulation but does not say 
>> > how to obtain it.
>> 
>>   i'd put in my .bashrc the line:
>> 
>>   TERM="vt102" && export TERM
>
> That's unwise.  It'll screw you up *hard* any time you're not using
> the terminal you normally use -- e.g. on ssh logins, or if you want to
> test another terminal, or if you use tmux or screen, etc.

  i actually set some terminals by which /dev/pts they are and
who is logged in.


  songbird