Mike wrote: > You need to set TERM=xterm-debian (as I discovered today).
That did not seem to solve the problem. One more strange thing that I notice is that my first xterm is always slightly bigger than subsequent xterms. I have screen captures of the first xterm and later xterms at - http://www.aunet.org/thaths/color.gif - First xterm http://www.aunet.org/thaths/no_color.gif - subsequent xterms As you will notice, the subsequent xterm is smaller in height and width. As I said earlier, color ls works fine. It is the other color aspects of the xterm (prompt, vim etc.) that don't work. S. -- "I really came on Godly. I took taxicabs all over NY. I tipped big because He would have. I got into a fight with a guy and I forgave him. It is true. Some guy hit my fender and I said unto him 'Be fruitful and multiply.' But not in those words." -- Woody Allen Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null