>From the original bug report by John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> rxvt-xpm, at least, is setting TERM to be xterm. It should be set to > "rxvt". Debian's termcap/terminfo (as well as that of every other Linux and > many other modern OSs as well) has an rxvt entry, and it should be used in > this situation. rxvt (and rxvt-xpm) always exports the variable "COLORTERM" so that programs can check for color support. As a side note, when XPM support has been compiled into rxvt (as with rxvt-xpm supplied in Debian's rxvt package), the value of COLORTERM is set to "rxvt-xpm" instead of "rxvt". > If for some reason that is not possible, at a minimum, xterm-color should be > used. Otherwise, programs fail to recognize the color capabilities of rxvt > and do not display in the best manner possible. Note that xterm from xbase version 3.2 sets TERM to xterm, and not xterm-color, when color support has been enabled. Perhaps the following line should be added to /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color: *VT100*termName: xterm-color I can rebuild rxvt to set TERM=xterm-color (there are not many differences between the terminfo entries for rxvt and xterm-color). However, if we are to do things absolutely the correct way, I suppose that Debian should provide a "rxvt" terminfo entry and a "rxvt-color" entry (with color support as the only difference between the two). Then rxvt would set TERM=rxvt-color when running on a display with Xdepth > 2 and TERM=rxvt otherwise. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Brian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
