maillog: 23/08/2005-16:57:28(-0400): Olivier Crete types > I though about this thing last night, and frankly, I think its a lost > cause. I remember that during the Gnome 1.x era, gnome-terminal used to > set TERM=gnome (at least it did on Red Hat) and they had the proper > termcap/terminfo entries. But they ended up going back to TERM=xterm, > probably because it caused problems for their users, like login into > anything else and being reduced to the lowest possible common > denominator (like logging into a Solaris system and being reduced to > non-visual mode by vi). And by the way, Solaris 2.8 still does not know > about rxvt. > > As a gnome-terminal user, I've never had problems with anything that > tried to use advanced xterm crap... probably because no uses them. If > you want X stuff, just use a real X application (like gvim...). I'm > strictly opposed to crippling my terminal use in the most common cases > (such a logging into a non-Gentoo system) for one or two legacy > applications. > > In the era of massive sshing, we have to forget terminfo and new > terminal types. We should understand xterm to mean a basic x terminal > and not the application from X.org.
Oh, come-on, just do "TERM=xterm ssh your.solaris.box" when you really need to. Or, recalling Ciaran's opening post to this thread, put your terminfo in ~/.terminfo (was it?) on those few machines. -- () Georgi Georgiev () Paprika Measure: 2 dashes == 1smidgen 2 () () [EMAIL PROTECTED] () smidgens == 1 pinch 3 pinches == 1 soupcon () () +81(90)2877-8845 () 2 soupcons == 2 much paprika () -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
