Bug#785219: stterm: TERM environment var is incorrect
Package: stterm Followup-For: Bug #785219 Hi folks, I can't really reproduce this problem, but for me `ls --color` outputs color even when I run with TERM=foo or whatever, so there might be something else going on. However, I wanted to point out that the stterm package currently provides stterm-256color termino (and some other variants), whereas the ncurses-term package provides the st-256color termino (and again some other variants). Looking at xterm, that does not provide any terminfo at all, but relies on the ncurses-term package to provide its terminfo (though it does not Depend on it, so I guess it expects whoever needs terminfo to do so). Splitting the terminfo off from the terminal itself makes it easier to make things work remotely: When SSH'ing to a remote system, the remote system needs the terminfo, but might not have the stterm available (or even any GUI packages at all). So, it seems this bug should be fixed by changing the TERM variable set, and removing the terminfo from the stterm package. Until then, placing this in your .bashrc should fix the problem in most cases: if [ "$TERM" = "stterm-256color" ]; then TERM=st-256color; fi Gr. Matthijs
Bug#785219: stterm: TERM environment var is incorrect
Noted. Put on todo list.
Bug#785219: stterm: TERM environment var is incorrect
Package: stterm Version: 0.5+20140606+gitc2fd275-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? * What outcome did you expect instead? *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** 1. Install stterm from apt-get. 2. Start stterm 3. Run ls --color 4. Note the lack of color. 5. Check TERM (echo $TERM). 6. Note that it is set to stterm-256color. 7. Run ls --color=yes 8. Note the lack of color. 9. Set TERM=st-256color 10. Run ls --color 11. Note the color. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages stterm depends on: ii libc6 2.19-18 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3 ii libx11-62:1.6.3-1 ii libxft2 2.3.2-1 stterm recommends no packages. stterm suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
