Is there any chance of this being looked at? I use XFCE4 and this bug affects me.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to vte in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/778801 Title: TERM unconditionally set to "xterm", regardless of config Status in Gnome Virtual Terminal Emulator: Invalid Status in XFCE4 Terminal Emulator: Unknown Status in “vte” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “xfce4-terminal” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: xfce4-terminal Xubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal xfce4-terminal 0.4.7-0ubuntu1 libvte9 0.27.90 I wish to enable 256-color support in apps running under xfce4-terminal; but even though I've set TERM to this value in the config (and verified it in .config/Terminal/terminalrc), the TERM variable winds up having the value "xterm". Upon digging a little further, xfce4-terminal correctly sets the TERM variable in the environment vector that it then passes through to vte via vte_terminal_command_full (this takes place within the terminal_screen_launch_child function found in terminal/terminal- screen.c). However, vte_terminal_fork_command_full copies everything from that vector _except_ the TERM variable, unconditionally replacing that with a value that should be set by calling vte_pty_set_term (this happens in src/pty.c:__vte_pty_merge_environ(), which is called by (and gets the TERM value from) src/pty.c:__vte_pty_spawn, which in turn is called by src/vte.c:vte_terminal_fork_command_full() ). xfce4-terminal doesn't appear to ever call that function anywhere, and thus vte defaults to "xterm". So the appropriate fix would seem to be to make xfce4-terminal call that function to register the correct TERM value. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/vte/+bug/778801/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
