userid all-caps makes screen output all-caps.

[James Knott]

Henry Spencer wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Terrence Enger wrote:
> 
>>For funny reasons, I would to have a user id which is named 
>>with all capital letters.  However makes my screen sessions 
>>display in all capital letters.  Is there a way to avoid this 
>>effect on the screen?
> 
> 
> This is a feature, albeit an extremely old one.  If you log in with an
> all-caps login name, the login program concludes that you must be using an
> uppercase-only keyboard/terminal/whatever, and adjusts system settings
> accordingly. 
> 
> Try the command "stty -lcase", after logging in.  I don't recall any
> automatic way to turn this behavior off.

Adding that command to ,bashrc would do it.


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