control: reassign -1 libvte9 On lun., 2013-06-03 at 23:30 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > Package: xfce4-terminal > Version: 0.6.2-1 > Severity: important > > Before the XFCE 4.10 upgrade, I used to have my terminal type set to > xterm-256color in the preferences. However, now that terminal type is > set to xterm. If I edit the terminal type to be xterm-256color, I get > the following message in every terminal, and the terminal locks up and > is unusable until I set it back: > > *** VTE ***: Failed to load terminal capabilities from '/etc/termcap' > > Note that the message appears as soon as I type the first character into > the terminal type box (that is, the "-" character). Opening a new > terminal allows me to type, but it ignores the Enter key, which makes it > useless. I am using zsh with a highly-customized configuration, but > this worked fine before the upgrade. I had not noticed the problem > until now because my zsh configuration automatically forces > xterm-256color when that TERM definition is available and the terminal > is an xfce4-terminal. > > I don't know if the message is misleading or not, but /etc/termcap does > not exist, nor should it because Debian uses terminfo.
That's actually a vte issue. Vte doesn't support anymore to set the TERM environment variable. You can set the emulation, but it's not the same, messing with emulation mode can lead to really bad results, so vte now only supports XTERM emulation mode. http://docs.xfce.org/apps/terminal/preferences (search for “Emulation”) has some info about that, along with https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7178 and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640940 For now, you can try to set TERM in your shell with something like: ---- # Enable 256 color capabilities for appropriate terminals # Set this variable in your local shell config if you want remote # xterms connecting to this system, to be sent 256 colors. # This can be done in /etc/csh.cshrc, or in an earlier profile.d script. # SEND_256_COLORS_TO_REMOTE=1 # Terminals with any of the following set, support 256 colors (and are local) local256="$COLORTERM$XTERM_VERSION$ROXTERM_ID$KONSOLE_DBUS_SESSION" if [ -n "$local256" ] || [ -n "$SEND_256_COLORS_TO_REMOTE" ]; then case "$TERM" in 'xterm') TERM=xterm-256color;; 'screen') TERM=screen-256color;; 'Eterm') TERM=Eterm-256color;; esac export TERM if [ -n "$TERMCAP" ] && [ "$TERM" = "screen-256color" ]; then TERMCAP=$(echo "$TERMCAP" | sed -e 's/Co#8/Co#256/g') export TERMCAP fi fi unset local256 ---- Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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