Window managers

[Adam McDougall]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Edward Glowacki wrote:

> Quoted from Matt Graham on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:13:43PM -0400:
> > Sean <picasso@madflower.com> wrote:
> > > On 10 Apr 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > >> Strangely enough, I've been finding X much more usable on my new
> > >> laptop than on my desktop.  I think it has something to do with
> > >> the screen itself.  I find it really hard to stare at bright
> > >> white windows on a CRT, but not nearly so bad on this TFT.  Maybe
> > >> the TFT just looks more like a sheet of paper, with less "glow"
> > >> than a CRT.
> >
> > This is why konsole and Eterm have the "linux console" color scheme.  Mmm,
> > gray (or green!) text on black background.  Seriously, anyone who spends much
> > time within xterms may wish to check out konsole; its "virtual terminal within
> > a window" approach doesn't do anything screen doesn't do, but is almost as
> > addictive as virtual desktops.
>
> I'm glad I finished reading the thread before replying, because I was
> about to say, "ACK!  WTF you doing with black-on-white xterms?!?!" ;)
>
> As for Konsole, there's some stuff about it I like, but it has issues like,
> "How do I set the terminal type every time I start a Konsole?" so I can get
> color in my applications?  (and no, there is no command line argument to
> give it a terminal type, nor any preference/setting that I can find, nor
> any reference to it on the KDE web site, nor elsewhere that Google can
> find given my search terms...)
>
> --
> Edward Glowacki				glowack2@msu.edu

Is there a variable that only Konsole sets when you run a term under it?
You could test for that variable in your .login script and then change the
term type perhaps.