Re: How do I give a 'clear' command when leaving kdm/X?

[dan@cg619985-a.adubn1.nj.home.com]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 08:47:37PM +0000, Phillip Deackes generated a stream of 1s and 0s:
> How do I issue a 'clear' command to the terminal so that when I leave   
> kdm to shutdown or reboot I have a clean text screen? I need to do this
> to clear up some screen corruption which responds to 'clear'.
>   

Here's a very elegant way that appeared in one of LG issues. Put this in
your .bash_profile 'trap /usr/bin/clear EXIT'. Put this in your .bashrc if
desired also. trap is a very interesting internal bash command.

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