Re: xt5250 on gnome...

James Rich <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, [email protected] wrote:

> I've had xt5250 (tn5250-0.17.3) running fine on FreeBSD 7.0 Release, with
> XDM and xterm. Fairly basic setup with both 80 and 132 column screens.
>
> I've taken things one step further and installed gnome2-lite, as we are
> also interested in running other applications. However, now when I run
> xt5250 the font on the 80x25 screens is too large, and it will not switch
> over to 132 column mode.

This sounds like gnome is setting up the xterm in a way that conflicts 
with xt5250.  How are you starting xt5250?  Do you have any environment 
variables that affect xterm?

James Rich

if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on
the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond
when you're done reading them :)
 	- Paul Davis on ardour-dev
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