Re: SOLVED: Defaulting system to mono display

2001-06-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:44:43AM +0200, Karsten Heymann wrote: > uncommented the ttytype-line but with no effect, so I inserted > > TERM=linux-m > > into /etc/environment and am happy. AFAIK it is even better to put the termtype at the end of the lines in /etc/inittab that control the getty's

Re: SOLVED: Defaulting system to mono display

2001-06-26 Thread Karsten Heymann
I needed to deactivate any colors on my mono-terminal (mda textmode-card). The main point is to set TERM=linux-m when working locally. Grepping /etc for TERM I found #TTYTYPE_FILE=/etc/ttytype in /etc/login.defs. I did as noted there (created /etc/ttytype and uncommented the ttytype-line but

Re: Defaulting system to mono display

2001-06-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:04:43AM +0200, Karsten Heymann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:38:43PM -0700 or thereabouts, Karsten M. Self > wrote: > > on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:36:55AM +0200, Karsten Heymann ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [...] > > > > Hi, Karsten: >

Re: Defaulting system to mono display

2001-06-21 Thread Karsten Heymann
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:38:43PM -0700 or thereabouts, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:36:55AM +0200, Karsten Heymann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > [...] > > Hi, Karsten: Hi :) >[...] > $ startx -- -depth 1 > Many applications/environments dither rather heavily when

Re: Defaulting system to mono display

2001-06-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:36:55AM +0200, Karsten Heymann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi List, > > what is the best/correct way to tell the system that it's running on a > mono-display? Esp. I want mutt to use colours when reading mail over ssh > from my notebook, but using plain b/w mode when r

Defaulting system to mono display

2001-06-20 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi List, what is the best/correct way to tell the system that it's running on a mono-display? Esp. I want mutt to use colours when reading mail over ssh from my notebook, but using plain b/w mode when reading mail on my mailrouter's mda (yes, not even hercules!) display. Is there a global option a