another TERM gotcha

Doncho N. Gunchev mr700 at globalnet.bg
Fri Aug 6 14:08:25 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 04 August 2004 13:31, Kaj J.Niemi wrote:
> Tim,
> 
> > Seems to me that TERM gnome is a mistake.
> 
> You might want to read through bug #122815 then and communicate something
> internally. Although it started with End and Pos1 keys not working in less
> it ended up as a discussion of TERM=xterm vs. TERM=gnome (the latter won).
> 
> 
> // kaj

    I missed this discussion, but now (FC3t1) konsole sets TERM to konsole
and when you type a very long line it is trying to hide the start on the
left ant show '>', but in fact it leaves the previous line as it was and
starts a new one. When you try to move back and reach the start of the line
you get an extra messy line every character you scroll... ssh-ing anywhere
results in nonfunctional keys (F1..F4 at least) and even 'Error opening
terminal: konsole.'. Pressing Ctrl-L does not clear the screen, it just
goes to a new line and duplicates the previous one. Seems to broken to me.
    A simple export TERM=xterm fixes everything, it works as it used to (and
less recognizes Home and End keys).

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