Hi, the stock answer to this is usually a terse RTFM /usr/doc/xterm/README.debian
Never seemed justified to me interms of pain:benefit ratio, but according to this file on my Slink system, this has changed: ---- The xterm terminal type on a Debian system is an alias for xterm-debian. This means that "xterm" and "xterm-debian" are interchangeable as values of the $TERM environment variable in the shell. Since the xterm-debian type is typically not found on non-Debian systems, xterm is used as the system default. ---- It then goes on to describe the 3 ways xterm-debian differs from standard xterm... this is from: Version: 3.3.6-11potato15 so looks like upgrading xterm should fix this now? -Jon