Bug#368916: gnome-terminal: $TERM should be set to gnome instead of xterm

2015-03-23 Thread Egmont Koblinger
Hi, I've been an active contributor/developer of gnome-terminal in the last 1.5 years. I firmly disagree with Christoph's comment Apparently upstream intentionally breaks things or simply doesn't care. We do care, and we worked hard recently to make gnome-terminal work reasonably close to

Bug#368916: gnome-terminal: $TERM should be set to gnome instead of xterm

2015-03-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 14:11 +0100, Egmont Koblinger wrote: I firmly disagree with Christoph's comment Apparently upstream intentionally breaks things or simply doesn't care. Well at least it was changed (as it was said in some other discussion) from properly announcing it as vte or

Bug#368916: gnome-terminal: $TERM should be set to gnome instead of xterm

2015-03-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 14:23 +0100, Egmont Koblinger wrote: Having set the wrong TERM breaks all kinds of things and there is no real way to correct that (setting it in .bashrc or friends would do this for all terminals!). That's not quite true: you can check for $VTE_VERSION in your

Bug#368916: gnome-terminal: $TERM should be set to gnome instead of xterm

2015-03-22 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Anything new here? Apparently upstream intentionally breaks things or simply doesn't care. So could Debian please fix things at least downstream? The patch is trivial, and having tested it with all kinds of applications, it seems to not cause breakage. Having set the wrong TERM breaks all kinds

Bug#368916: gnome-terminal: $TERM should be set to gnome instead of xterm

2006-06-08 Thread Loïc Minier
tags 368916 + confirmed upstream tags 368916 - patch forwarded 368916 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115750 stop Hi, On Thu, May 25, 2006, James Vega wrote: Gnome-terminal incorrectly claims to be xterm-compatible in it's $TERM. This should instead be set to gnome, which is

Bug#368916: gnome-terminal: $TERM should be set to gnome instead of xterm

2006-05-25 Thread James Vega
Package: gnome-terminal Version: 2.14.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Gnome-terminal incorrectly claims to be xterm-compatible in it's $TERM. This should instead be set to gnome, which is the proper termcap entry for gnome-terminal. The attached patch fixes the hard-coded TERM entry in