According to the discussion on the Gnome VTE bug linked, calling
vte_terminal_set_emulation won't work either, unless it happens to be
recognized as a supported emulation mode. "xterm-256color" isn't, so
this solution wouldn't work.
There doesn't seem to be an obvious, clean way to fix the problem within
xfce4-terminal; vte is the one holding all the cards AFAICT. According
to discussion on the Gnome VTE bug, vte_terminal_fork_command_full is
"just a wrapper" around some other functions, but one of those functions
(__vte_pty_spawn) probably isn't safe to call by users.
Perhaps the correct solution should be for vte to revert to its previous
behavior, whereby it didn't brutally murder pre-existing TERM settings
when the terminal app sets them. If the upstream vte folks don't want to
consider this, Ubuntu probably should.
** Also affects: vte (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/778801
Title:
TERM unconditionally set to "xterm", regardless of config
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