MC and Xterm problems

[Botsvein]

Hello, Gentoers (or Genties - who knows :))!
Recently I've been palying with some basic X programs. I've got IceWM up and running fine, but there are still some problems to solve.
First one is how to start XTerm with different background and foreground colors? I know the command line options, but where is the config file for all this stuff?
The second is about MC+Xterm link. How to make all these keys - Home, End, Alt+X work? I'm stuck, no ideas :((
Oh, and one more thing about MC: When started by normal user, it says that TERM is not "linux/SCO" or something simular and refuses to hide panels at "Ctrl-O":(( Besides, it shows pure "$" in a command line, nothing like "user@machine". Setting TERM=linux makes nothing, and this looks like Gentoo bug, or I'm missing something. Being started as root, it works just fine :)).

[mb]

ok... xterm settings... create a file ~/.Xresources (or append) and enter

[credmp]

Besides the normal .Xresources and .Xdefaults you can also specify it on the command line of course: man xterm

maybe you have a TERM problem when it comes to your keys. Try something like 'export TERM=xterm' or vt100 etc. How a terminal handles keys depends greatly on what it thinks it is also might want to try and see what this brings you:

echo $SHELL

could be that when you created the user you forgot to set a shell?

grep username /etc/passwd

would give you something like:

arjenw:x:1003:10::/home/arjenw:/bin/bash

probably your last entry /bin/bash is empty. if it is you might want to su and put it in yourselfs.

-- Arjen

[Botsvein]

2mb: thanks, it works! But "source /etc/inputrc" in ~/.bashrc is a bad idea :((
F1-F5 stop working in MC after it..
2credmp: That was the thing! Thanks a lot! Now MC "Ctrl-O"'s perfectly!
But, nevertheless, Home and End keys, say nothing about Alt+AnyKey make me swear at this bloody piece of plastic :((