FC3 annoyances (blanking and blanking)

[Ofer Nave]

Gijs Hollestelle wrote:

>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
>
>  
>
It works!  Thanks.

Problem #2 solved.  Anyone have any ideas for problem 1?  (screen blanking)

-ofer