eliminating gnome-terminal colors

[Tom Buskey]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Coleman Kane <cokane at cokane.org> wrote:

>
> > I don't want anything to use anything except black on white text with
> > bold.
> Try setting your TERM environment variable to "vt102" or "vt220",
> instead of "linux", "xterm", or "xterm-color".
>

Thank you very much.

export TERM=vt100
does the trick.  It was set to xterm.


>
> For the xterm program, you can achieve this by running:
> xterm -tn vt220
>


> You can also just set your TERM env var in ~/.profile, ~/.cshrc, or
> ~/.bashrc (depending upon your shell type). You can get real creative
> and reset it only if the current value of it is "xterm" or something
> similar.
>

Yep.
/me pounds head on wall
It's obvious & I should have known.
So why was it so hard to google for?  *sigh*

FWIW - I was seeing this behavior with centericq on linux and lynx on
Solaris.
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