Harishankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 23 Apr 2008 15:11:21 Ben Kaplan wrote: >> I don't know about all Linux distros, but my Ubuntu machine (8.04 Beta), >> has the 'TERM' (xterm) and 'COLORTERM' (gnome-terminal) keys in os.environ. > This is set on Debian too. Thanks. I should be able to use this environment > variable on most Linux distributions, I suspect.
No! The TERM variable is not the name of a terminal emulation program! It's a terminal name intended to be looked up in the termcap and/or terminfo databases. For example, I use pterm as my terminal, but it (correctly) sets TERM=xterm. I'd suggest trying to run (in order, until one actually works): $X_TERMINAL_EMULATOR, sensible-x-terminal-emulator, x-terminal-emulator, xterm. -- [mdw] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
