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On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Bruno Lustosa wrote: |
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> I noticed that after the last upgrade to gnome-terminal, my TERM |
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> variable is set to 'gnome'. |
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> I think that's because the remote machines do not understand this kind |
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> of terminal, and so fall back to 'dumb' or something like that. |
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> What's the problem with leaving TERM=xterm when under gnome-terminal? |
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> Isn't this a fine standard for all X terminals? Is there a |
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> gnome-terminal configuration somewhere that lets me set the TERM that |
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> I want? I'll have a look at gconf. |
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gnome-terminal is actually doing things correctly at last. Only xterm |
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should use TERM=xterm. (except if your NOT-xterm terminal supports |
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_everything_ that xterm supports. And pretty much no one does. xterm |
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is probably the most capable terminal and definitely not a least |
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common denominator.) |
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Sure it causes problems as most machines don't have proper settings |
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for all possible terminals, but that is a bug on that system. You can |
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add the settings yourself (in your home directory). Happily, I can't |
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remember _how_ you did this. ;-) I read a good document on this issue |
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somewhere but can't seem to locate it. Very likely a pointer to it is |
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somewheres in this list's archives. |
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Mikko |
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Mikko Ruuska, R & D |
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