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On Monday 28 September 2009, Willie Wong wrote: |
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> On my laptop the terminal emulator is currently aterm. (I know, I |
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> know, I really should switch to rxvt-unicode already. But I am about |
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> to get a new machine soon, so am too lazy to deal with it now.) |
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> But when I ssh into other computers, and issue echo $TERM it shows |
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> kterm. Now this has caused me a bit of headache due to curses and |
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> dialog behaving funny, and I just found out today that if I export |
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> TERM=xterm after logging in, all my woes went away. |
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I also have aterm and tried ssh with two different machines. Both return rxvt |
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which is what echo $TERM gives when in a local terminal. |
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(At some point I was thinking of using mrxvt, but fluxbox allows me to stack |
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multiple aterms into a single tabbed terminal so I haven't tried it yet). |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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