On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Sven Joachim wrote:
tags 638196 + wontfix
thanks
On 2011-08-20 19:19 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-08-20 18:34 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:
(as a general rule, ncurses maintains "vte" and "gnome" for users of
VTE-based terminals).
It's just not entirely trivial to use them because at least
gnome-terminal uses "xterm" by default and there are no options to
change this in its settings. But I digress.
yes, and it doesn't appear that it'll be fixed anytime soon.
I can't speak for the Gnome and VTE maintainers, but part of the problem
is that "xterm" terminfo entry is available everywhere, while "gnome" is
not, potentially causing big trouble when you log in on remote systems.
The same used to be true for rxvt (in more than one sense - there was
a phase where rxvt's developer set TERM to "xterm" just because it was
"there" - the function keys never did match).
The same issue (using TERM=xterm when it doesn't fit) exists for konsole
of course, though it doesn't get as much attention. On the other hand,
konsole has a command-line option to pre-set TERM, just like rxvt ("-tn").
For remote systems - there's tset, which has been the "answer" for a long
time. I don't see that mentioned much anymore.
Maybe we should ship gnome and gnome-256color in ncurses-base to
alleviate that problem.
actually vte's the way to go - it seems there aren't any interesting
differences across the various terminals (such as xfce) which use vte.
For that reason, I've deprecated "gnome" in favor of "vte".
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