Terminal type??

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 04/19/2010 03:19:49 PM, Mikkel wrote:
> On 04/19/2010 04:08 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > /usr/bin/gnome-terminal has suddenly started rejecting 
> "TERM=xterm".
> 
> > OK, so that's not true, but its been working since gnome-terminal 
> > showed up. Anyone know what the appropriate setting is?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> Dumb question - why are you trying to set TERM? On my system, it
> already defaults to xterm.
> 
> It would also help to know how you are setting TERM, and what error
> you are getting.

geoff at mtranch[1]->echo $TERM
xterm
geoff at mtranch[2]->clear
'xterm': unknown terminal type.

On further thought, /usr/bin/clear is packaged with ncurses, and so one 
would think that it would depend, ultimately, on /usr/share/terminfo/x/
xterm,which exists and is readable. Hmmmm .... time for a reboot?