Fedora Core 3
Adrian Havill
havill at redhat.com
Tue Jul 6 22:00:06 UTC 2004
Jeremy Katz wrote:
>On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 17:50 -0400, Adrian Havill wrote:
>
>
>>There seems to be no least common denominator terminfo that can be
>>called "xterm" that satisfies the gnome-terminal, konsole, and xorg
>>xterm camp all at the same time. I believe that the best solution may
>>be to leave the xterm definition in the terminfo as stock, and set the
>>TERM to point to a more specific entry, if one can be deduced, during
>>term shell initialization.
>>
>>
>
>Which then leads to all sorts of annoying bogus nonsense when you log
>into older systems that don't have this "new" entry.
>
>
Good point. In that case, leaving TERM alone if COLORTERM is not set is
better.
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