Re: Fedora Core 3

[Tom Diehl <tdiehl rogueind com>]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Adrian Havill wrote:

> Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> >Cristian Gafton (gafton redhat com) said: 
> >  
> >
> >>>I'm sure there's other stuff people would like to see. What sorts
> >>>of things?
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>I'd like to see the text terminals fixed up again so that Home and End 
> >>keys work in emacs -nw, joe, jed, whatever other places that are under 
> >>ncurses controls.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Text? Not xterm/gnome-terminal/etc?
> >
> >I thought all the complaints were about the latter.
> >  
> >
> 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.

Is there somewhere besides the source that it is documented where the defaults
are set? I would really like to be able to know the correct way to do the
customizations via a ks-cfg file.

Tom