On 06/26/2012 02:37 PM, Thomas Moschny wrote: > 2012/6/26 Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> The newer terminal >> programs have configuration menus for various things; do any of them set >> it there? If they don't, I would think it would be relatively easy to >> add (and hopefully upstreams would accept such patches). > > Tried with XFCE's "Terminal", which has a $TERM option in its > configuration dialog (under advanced options), but it simply doesn't > work. I set it to "xterm-256color", but within the shell, TERM is > still "xterm". > > Not sure whether that is an XFCE (or vte) bug, or whether some > system-wide profile script overrides it. Afaict, none of my user > profile scripts overrides it. See bottom comment here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21007#comment94595 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel