Some more information on GNOME Terminal: According to their bug tracker, GNOME Terminal/VTE does have TERM=xterm- 256color by default since 2014/2015: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740641 (the relevant commit seems to be https://github.com/GNOME/vte/commit/82a8b0697dd948fa488b5a51ee7391deb35d49be).
Red Hat bug report leading to this change: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166428 Somewhat lengthy discussion on TERM in GNOME Terminal, also commenting on the Red Hat init script approach: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115750 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #740641 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740641 ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #1166428 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166428 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #115750 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115750 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to konsole in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1548032 Title: Set Konsole's TERM variable to xterm-256color by default To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kde-baseapps/+bug/1548032/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs