[gentoo-user] aterm into kterm?

[Willie Wong]

On my laptop the terminal emulator is currently aterm. (I know, I
know, I really should switch to rxvt-unicode already. But I am about
to get a new machine soon, so am too lazy to deal with it now.)

But when I ssh into other computers, and issue echo $TERM it shows
kterm. Now this has caused me a bit of headache due to curses and
dialog behaving funny, and I just found out today that if I export
TERM=xterm after logging in, all my woes went away. 

Now, at work, the machines run some custom version of linux and I am
not sure what the terminals are. And I also often use the VT and not
use X on my laptop, so I am disinclined to set TERM in .bashrc. 

Is there any good way so that when I ssh into a machine using aterm
I can set TERM=xterm, while leaving everything else alone since they
work okay?

W
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