Re: Fedora Core 3

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

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