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. Jeremy