Pau wrote:
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> Hi
> 
> 2008/8/11 Owain Ainsworth <zerooa@googlemail.com>:
>> On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 03:11:58PM +0200, Pau wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have had a look at cwm today. It looks nice. This is
>>>
>>> OpenBSD 4.3 GENERIC#698 i386
>>>
>>> I have found out that when I redefine term in .calmwm with a symbolic
>>> link to xterm with a certain font, that geometry etc, pressing
>>> C-M-Enter spawns a new terminal, the one I redefined but, then, when
>>> trying to use the nice ``Ssh to'' dialog with M-. I simply get "my"
>>> xterm after the dialog but no connexion.
>> That is what .Xdefaults or similar is for...
>>
>> XTerm*termName: xterm-xfree86
>> XTerm*background: black
>> XTerm*foreground: grey
>> XTerm*jumpScroll: true
>> XTerm*multiScroll: true
>> XTerm*scrollBar: false
>> XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true
>> XTerm*faceName: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
>> XTerm*faceSize: 7
>>
>> (yes, those are what I use)
> 
> yes, I agree. But .Xdefaults is not quite trivial to understand; e.g.
> how do you pass the option to receive  console output? What is the
> equivalent of -C on the command line for .Xdefaults?
> 
> Something I also do not understand, most likely due to my abhorrent
> ignorance, is why all man pages here
> /usr/X11R6/man/ are not installed per default. man xterm yields
> nothing. If I am supposed to do it on my own,
> I'd appreciate a hint how to do it. I don't see any Makefile there.
> 
> That means that all these programmes:
> 
> FvwmAuto.0      FvwmIconMan.0   FvwmScroll.0    koi8rxterm.0    xterm.0
> FvwmBacker.0    FvwmIdent.0     FvwmTalk.0      resize.0        xtsscale.0
> FvwmBanner.0    FvwmM4.0        FvwmWinList.0   ssh-askpass.0   xvctl.0
> FvwmButtons.0   FvwmPager.0     cwm.0           uxterm.0
> FvwmCpp.0       FvwmRearrange.0 fvwm.0          xidle.0
> FvwmForm.0      FvwmSave.0      glxgears.0      xpmroot.0
> FvwmIconBox.0   FvwmSaveDesk.0  glxinfo.0       xsystrace.0
> 
> do not have man pages after a default installation (cwm among them)
> 
> elachistos(p7)| ls /usr/X11R6/man/                                    ~ (16:54)
> cat1      cat4      cat7      man3      man5      whatis.db
> cat3      cat5      man1      man4      man7
> 
> 
> elachistos(p7)| ls /usr/X11R6/man/cat1                                ~ (16:56)
> FvwmAuto.0      FvwmIconMan.0   FvwmScroll.0    koi8rxterm.0    xterm.0
> FvwmBacker.0    FvwmIdent.0     FvwmTalk.0      resize.0        xtsscale.0
> FvwmBanner.0    FvwmM4.0        FvwmWinList.0   ssh-askpass.0   xvctl.0
> FvwmButtons.0   FvwmPager.0     cwm.0           uxterm.0
> FvwmCpp.0       FvwmRearrange.0 fvwm.0          xidle.0
> FvwmForm.0      FvwmSave.0      glxgears.0      xpmroot.0
> FvwmIconBox.0   FvwmSaveDesk.0  glxinfo.0       xsystrace.0
> 
> elachistos(p7)| man xterm                                             ~ (16:56)
> man: no entry for xterm in the manual.
> 
> diff /tmp/man2.conf /etc/man.conf
> 
> yields nothing. /tmp/man2.conf is from an obsd 4.2 box in which man
> xterm works well...
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Pau

Hi Pau,

Something is wrong with your path or MANPATH, as 
/usr/X11R6/man/cat1/xterm.0 is the man page for xterm.

man -m or -M might help.

HTH

Fred