FC3 annoyances (blanking and blanking)
Gijs Hollestelle
g.hollestelle at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 12:32:02 UTC 2005
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:07:16 -0800, Ofer Nave <onave at shopzilla.com> wrote:
> Hello! I'm new to Fedora... just installed FC3. There are two
> annoyances that I haven't found a way around, and I was hoping to get
> help here.
> 2) I used to use SecureCRT to ssh into linux boxes for development, and
> when I used man or less, the last screen would remain visible after
> pressing 'q' to return to the prompt. Now that I'm using X, it
> disappears when I quit. I've tried xterm, konsole, and gnome term - all
> have the same behavior.
This is caused by ncurses that restores the screen after you quit
less, if you pass -X to less it doesn't do this. To make less use -X
automaticly put something like:
export LESS="-X"
Into your startup script (this will also work for manual pages as
these are displayed using less by default)
Greets,
Gijs
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