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From: stroyan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Mike Stroyan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP-UX 8.0 and stty settings
Message-ID: <7370416@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Jun 91 20:02:10 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.231236.25720@apd.mentorg.com>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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> I have recently installed HP-UX 8.0 on my 845 and the behavior of the 
> stty inheritance seems to have changed.  They used to get set when I logged
> in from /etc/profile (things like stty erase ^H).
> 
> Now, when I log in (terminal mode) the settings get set, but when I start
> mwm up via x11start, the xterms and/or hpterms don't inherit any stty 
> settings unless I use the -ls (act as a login shell).

Because the default login sequence is straight to X through the Vuelogin
screen, there is often no initial stty setting to inherit.  The 8.0
version of hpterm has default stty settings that can be modified by X
resources.  The following is an excerpt from the hpterm manual entry.

> ttyModes
>   This resource specifies a string containing terminal-setting
>   keywords and the characters to which they may be bound.
>   Allowable keywords include: intr, quit, erase, kill, eof, eol,
>   swtch, start, stop, brk, susp, dsusp, rprnt, flush, weras, and
>   Inext.  Control characters may be specified as ^char (e.g. ^c or
>   ^u), and ^? may be used to indicate delete.  This is very useful
>   for overriding the default terminal settings without having to do
>   an stty every time an hpterm is started.

The resource can be set with a line like "*ttyModes: erase ^H" in .Xdefaults
or can be merged into the xrdb settings using "xrdb -merge" if you are
using HP-VUE or xrdb.

Mike Stroyan, mike_stroyan@fc.hp.com