On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > I noticed that after the last upgrade to gnome-terminal, my TERM > variable is set to 'gnome'. ... > I think that's because the remote machines do not understand this kind > of terminal, and so fall back to 'dumb' or something like that. > What's the problem with leaving TERM=xterm when under gnome-terminal? ... > Isn't this a fine standard for all X terminals? Is there a > gnome-terminal configuration somewhere that lets me set the TERM that > I want? I'll have a look at gconf.
gnome-terminal is actually doing things correctly at last. Only xterm should use TERM=xterm. (except if your NOT-xterm terminal supports _everything_ that xterm supports. And pretty much no one does. xterm is probably the most capable terminal and definitely not a least common denominator.) Sure it causes problems as most machines don't have proper settings for all possible terminals, but that is a bug on that system. You can add the settings yourself (in your home directory). Happily, I can't remember _how_ you did this. ;-) I read a good document on this issue somewhere but can't seem to locate it. Very likely a pointer to it is somewheres in this list's archives. Mikko -- Mikko Ruuska, R & D Solid Information Technology -- http://www.solidtech.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
