[gentoo-user] aterm into kterm?

[gentoo-user] aterm into kterm?

[Willie Wong]

On my laptop the terminal emulator is currently aterm. (I know, I
know, I really should switch to rxvt-unicode already. But I am about
to get a new machine soon, so am too lazy to deal with it now.)

But when I ssh into other computers, and issue echo $TERM it shows
kterm. Now this has caused me a bit of headache due to curses and
dialog behaving funny, and I just found out today that if I export
TERM=xterm after logging in, all my woes went away. 

Now, at work, the machines run some custom version of linux and I am
not sure what the terminals are. And I also often use the VT and not
use X on my laptop, so I am disinclined to set TERM in .bashrc. 

Is there any good way so that when I ssh into a machine using aterm
I can set TERM=xterm, while leaving everything else alone since they
work okay?

W
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Re: [gentoo-user] aterm into kterm?

[Nils Larsson]

> Now, at work, the machines run some custom version of linux and I am
> not sure what the terminals are. And I also often use the VT and not
> use X on my laptop, so I am disinclined to set TERM in .bashrc. 


Well, bash is bash, it doesn't matter if you work machines use X or
whatnot. Add:
export TERM=xterm
to ~/.bash_profile on your work machine account.

Re: [gentoo-user] aterm into kterm?

[Willie Wong]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:39:44PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nils Larsson squawked:
> > Now, at work, the machines run some custom version of linux and I am
> > not sure what the terminals are. And I also often use the VT and not
> > use X on my laptop, so I am disinclined to set TERM in .bashrc. 
> 
> 
> Well, bash is bash, it doesn't matter if you work machines use X or
> whatnot. Add:
> export TERM=xterm
> to ~/.bash_profile on your work machine account.

I'm not quite sure what you mean, but I think I didn't explain myself
clear. 

There are three machines involved. 

Server A
Desktop B
Laptop C

I ssh into Server A from Desktop B and Laptop C. 
Desktop B is at work. I am not sure what terminal it uses. But it has
no problems with the terminal. 
Laptop C is my personal machine, on which I run aterm usually. But
when I ssh into Server A, echo $TERM shows kterm. (I just tried rxvt
and xterm also on this machine, and $TERM is correctly listed for
both.) 

Setting anything on Desktop B is unlikely to help. 
I don't want to set anything on Server A because I worry that it might
break whatever is working currently from Desktop B. 
I don't think I should set anything on Laptop C in .bash* because I
also use other terms occasionally and the VT. 

If my worries are unfounded, can you tell me why?

W

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Re: [gentoo-user] aterm into kterm?

[Mick]

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On Monday 28 September 2009, Willie Wong wrote:
> On my laptop the terminal emulator is currently aterm. (I know, I
> know, I really should switch to rxvt-unicode already. But I am about
> to get a new machine soon, so am too lazy to deal with it now.)
>
> But when I ssh into other computers, and issue echo $TERM it shows
> kterm. Now this has caused me a bit of headache due to curses and
> dialog behaving funny, and I just found out today that if I export
> TERM=xterm after logging in, all my woes went away.

I also have aterm and tried ssh with two different machines.  Both return rxvt 
which is what echo $TERM gives when in a local terminal.

(At some point I was thinking of using mrxvt, but fluxbox allows me to stack 
multiple aterms into a single tabbed terminal so I haven't tried it yet).
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] aterm into kterm?

[Willie Wong]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:57:34PM +0100, Penguin Lover Mick squawked:
> I also have aterm and tried ssh with two different machines.  Both return rxvt 
> which is what echo $TERM gives when in a local terminal.
> 
Okay, this is progress. I didn't think to check this before. But
apparently echo $TERM locally returns kterm on this laptop, when I am
running aterm. 

Anybody know how to fix that? (Set it to either xterm or rxvt?)
(Without breaking other terms and the VT!)

Thanks, 

W

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