Reset Apple Terminal settings

[thebogan]

Whenever I open Apple's Terminal application, Lynx web browser automatically loads itself, and crashes.

It doesn't ever let me have a normal terminal window anymore.

Is there a way I can "reset" or clear the preferences for Terminal?

Here's what happens when as soon as I open terminal:

Last login: Tue Jan 9 22:24:27 on ttyp1
/Applications/lynx.command; exit
Welcome to Darwin!
wh-wl14:~ tim$ /Applications/lynx.command; exit

Looking up www-proxy.example.com:8080
Making HTTP connection to www-proxy.example.com:8080
Sending HTTP request.
HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
Alert!: Proxy authorization required -- retrying
Retrying with proxy authorization information.
Looking up www-proxy.example.com:8080
Making HTTP connection to www-proxy.example.com:8080

lynx: Can't access startfile http://lynx.isc.org/
logout
[Process completed]

When it gets to

[Process completed]

the window becomes unusable.

Tim

[your_store]

Hmm.. I wonder if it's in your login file, which is located at ~/.bash_login

If you can't get it fixed, go ahead and make the jump to iTerm. A much better app than the built-in one, IMO.

That way you can also make sure it isn't some weird Terminal only problem.

[edited by: your_store at 4:11 pm (utc) on Jan. 10, 2007]

[timster]

Check this file: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist
With luck, there will be an obvious line in it to comment out or remove. Or else you might move the file out of the directory and see how that goes.

If you need the Terminal right away before you have time to fix it, you can create a new user account and use Terminal from that user.

[physics]

Also look in .bashrc and /etc/bashrc.
That's weird that it automatically tries to use lynx connect to some sort of proxy site. Have you investigated the site it tries to connect to?

[thebogan]

Thanks everyone. I found the preference file for Terminal and just deleted it.

Then when I opened Terminal it recreated it.
Now it works fine again.

Cheers