On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:47:58PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:40:01PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > > Hi, > > Any hint on how to make gnome-terminal set TERM=gnome? > > hmm - iirc, it hardcodes the value. Perhaps it (like rxvt) sets $COLORTERM, > which xterm does not do. I recall some discussion from people who made a > workable wrapper script which used that check.
Yup, $COLORTERM == gnome-terminal. > > > Try TERM=gnome > > > > No error messages then. Now we only need to convince the gnome people > > that they aren't fully xterm compatible... > > One would assume they know that... It'd make sense that they default $TERM to gnome if they cared about the fact that they weren't fully xterm compatible. They've had a comment in the code since 2002 about making that configurable instead of hard-coding it. Guess that wasn't revisited. To be honest, I'm not sure why they just don't set $TERM to 'gnome'. That's the termcap entry for *their* terminal emulator. *shrug* James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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