Re: [ILUG] Stop vi clearing screen on exit

From: Conor Daly (conor.daly at domain met.ie)
Date: Wed 16 May 2001 - 15:14:15 IST


On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:42:04PM +0100 or thereabouts, Colm Buckley wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 May 2001 14:25, Conor Daly wrote:
>
> > I don't have a .Xresources or .Xdefaults
>
> If you don't have .Xresources or .Xdefaults, you should be able to
> create one without any problems - most display managers should be set
> up to read one of these at session startup (look in gdm/kdm/xdm's scripts
> directory to see which one).
>
> There *should* be something equivalent for gnome-terminal, but I have
> no information on this. I tend to use xterm or rxvt rather than konsole or
> gnome-terminal, basically because my way of working tends to invoke
> many terminals for short periods, and xterm starts up faster than
> either the GNOME or KDE equivalents.

Ok, a .Xdefaults works for an xterm but not for a gnome-terminal. A gnome
term returns "xterm" in $TERM but that doesn't necessarily indicate what
termcap entry it's using. Tried restarting gnome in case the gnome term
didn't check the .Xdefaults each time but no difference. Just occurred to
me though, gnome-terminal can use a single server for multiple terms and
maybe all terms needed to be gone before logout or something like that.

Does gnome-terminal use a termcap entry? and if so, which?

Conor

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