Re: How to properly set TERM variable

[Kirk Hilliard <kirk@ghoti.com>]

Britton <fsblk@aurora.alaska.edu> writes:

> I like to set TERM=xterm-color, and don't have a lot of patience with
> programs that can't deal with this.  When telneting, it is good to put
> TERM=vt100 or some such thing in your .bashrc or it's equivelent on the
> remote system.

Note that, as things stand now, in hamm there is no xterm-color.
/etc/terminfo/x/xterm includes the color definition, and there is a
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-old.[1]  (There are also color_xterm,
xterm-16color, and xterm-pcolor, but no xterm-color.)

For some details see:

  http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/14/14366.html


Kirk Hilliard


[1]  I hate dselect[2] in a color xterm since the whitespace
     surrounding the descriptive text of the information section
     is not colored, so big blocks of reverse video text jump around
     as I scroll through packages.  Hence, I always run:

       # TERM=xterm-old dselect


[2]  I have noticed that, in hamm, dselect no longer seems to handle
     xterm resizing.  Also, stray characters sometime appear after
     rapidly scrolling through packages.  Has anyone else noticed
     this, and is it a bug in dselect, or in ncurses, or what?


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