> This flag is used to 'upgrade' from xterm to xterm-256color in almost every bash environment people use...
Then these should be fixed. COLORTERM's semantics have nothing to do with 256 color support per se, it was a mere coincidence that all terminals that set this variable also supported 256 colors. And as I said, this upgrade won't be necessary beginning with the next major VTE release, which defaults to xterm-256color. I recommend that Ubuntu backports this change. Rest assured, VTE_VERSION is not dropped. I'm using vte+gnome-terminal from git HEAD, and it's still set. I'm not sure what that commit is about, it must be something about how the command line "gnome-terminal" process connects to the running "gnome-terminal-server" or starts it up, or something like that, I'm not familiar with that area of the code. This might be about purging a previous value, but then later the correct one is set. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1429584 Title: gnome-terminal doesn't set $COLORTERM from 3.14 onwards To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1429584/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
