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From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting $TERM in Konsole (and others)
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:58:31
Message-Id: 9acccfe50510160954q2334c8d1waa5d16c50372eacb@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting $TERM in Konsole (and others) by Kevin O'Gorman
1 Okay, I did that. The bug is #114511, found at
2 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114511
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4 ++ kevin
5
6 On 10/16/05, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote:
7 >
8 > I couldn't find it either. What bothers me is that in a Konsole, there's
9 > a Settings -> Configure Konsole -> Session -> $TERM
10 > setting that looks like it should override anything X does. I would
11 > expect that Konsole would be started, change the TERM environment
12 > and start the indicated shell. This isn't happening.
13 >
14 > I guess it's time to look in a bugs database for KDE.
15 >
16 > ++ kevin
17 >
18 > On 10/15/05, Glenn Enright <elinar@×××××××.nz> wrote:
19 > >
20 > > On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 03:06, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
21 > > > I run Konsole for shell sessions, and things are going slightly wrong.
22 > > > I've tracked it down to the fact that although I've set the Konsole
23 > > > preferences to $TERM=linux, that variable is obdurately "xterm".
24 > > >
25 > > > When I put an echo in .bashrc or .bash_profile, it's already xterm.
26 > > > How can I find the culprit?
27 > > >
28 > > > ++ kevin
29 > >
30 > > You'll find if you log into a text console (ALT F1, F2 etc), $TERM
31 > > should be
32 > > linux. However konsole and others in 'X' are set to xterm so something
33 > > is
34 > > being set as X loads. I couldn't find xterm in any of the /etc/env.d
35 > > files,
36 > > so its not being picked up there anyhow.
37 > >
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