Re: xt5250 on gnome...

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, fschnittke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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

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