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Tony Houghton wrote:

> OK, what I had was:
> 
> *termName: xterm
> 
> (from the xterm manpage, not the termcap one). But it still doesn't seem
> to have helped.

You shouldn't have to do that, anyway. xterm should just work.

> $TERM being set to "network" for each xterm I start from the fvwm
> background menu. I can't find any config file to change this. I've even
> resorted to searching the whole FS for occurences of TERM, but I
> couldn't find anything relevant.

Is that just with fvwm? Does it do that with twm too? If, from a
'network' window, you type xterm& does this new terminal also inherit
the wired 'network' setting?

If it's just from fvwm, chances are yu've got a broken line in your
.fvwmrc. My xterm-associated lines look like:

        Exec    "Normal"        exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -T Terminal
-sl 512 &
        Exec    "Inverted"      exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -T Terminal
-sl 512 -r &
        Exec    "joe"           exec xterm -T joe -e /usr/local/bin/joe
&
        Exec    "Top"           exec xterm -T top -e top -s1 &

And they work just fine. I remember the refault xterm line/s in fvwm
were wrong for some reason, but I can't remember why. Not for that
reason, though, I don't think.

> Also, one of the reasons I wanted to run IRC-II in X was so that it can
> have each virtual window in a separate xterm, but when I try it
> complains that it can't do it. Is the basic xterm entry not
> sophisticated enough?

If the xterm is behaving properly, then pretty well anything that runs
on a CLI should work in an xterm, I think. If it's just fvwm causing the
problem and you can't work it out, mail me your .fvwmrc.

	Neil

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