On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:30:36AM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > Hi, > > 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* > > Do all "supported platforms" have a gnome termcap? I can imagine that
Actually it's terminfo - except for NetBSD, there's no current (past 10 years) platform that actually uses termcap other than for legacy support. I don't know - what's your list for "supported platforms"? > some other (buggy) applications work better when you claim to be xterm > when you are just mostly compatible. none that I'm aware of (excepting of course, programs that hardcode "xterm" into their scripts, of course). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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