On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 05:30:02PM -0400, James Vega wrote: > > > 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.
(xterm itself is configurable ;-) > 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* The usual reason given is that it's too hard for people to install a correct terminfo or termcap on other systems. (I'm using PuTTY at the moment, having installed the 2kb terminfo file on my shell account). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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