Re: Fedora Core 3

[Adrian Havill <havill redhat com>]

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.