Hello, > I checked the value of $TERM and realized I had no idea what would BE a > correct value
gnome-terminal sets $TERM to xterm-256color by default. This is the value the software's developers think is best suited. There should be no reason for you to tamper with it. > tmux requires $TERM to be set correctly _Inside_ tmux you'll need a different value for $TERM. But this has hardly anything (if at all) to do with gnome-terminal. You need to consult tmux's documentation for the details. (But I'm fairly certain that tmux also sets the correct value by default, the best you can do is probably again not to touch it. What is the _actual_ problem you're having that does not work out of the box for you and you suspect requires fiddling with $TERM?) > To be honest, that outcome is pretty much as I expected. Nobody ever > documents anything. But what I had HOPED to find was full reference > documentation for gnome-terminal. Rants like this, unfortunately, won't take you anywhere. Like many software projects out there, gnome-terminal is also developed by a few volunteers in their scarce free time. These developers writing excessive documentation (including things like "hey this is set up for you correctly by default, please don't touch it) would take away a significant amount of time from actually making the software function better, which a lot more people are interested in. (Let alone the fact that writing good user-facing documentation requires quite different skills than writing good quality software, you can't just 1:1 trade one for the other.) I'm not saying that it's good that there's no such documentation, nor that your report is invalid. It is indeed a valid issue. I'm just saying that given the scarce resources, and given the skills of the volunteers this project has, it's probably the best compromise the project could make, and therefore it's unlikely to be addressed in the foreseeable future. That being said, high quality contributions (e.g. a "full reference documentation" from a new volunteer technical writer) would surely be highly welcome! e.
