[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Hardcode env variable TERM to xterm #2394

[Simon Schampijer]

On 10/06/2010 09:24 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> Excerpts from simon's message of Wed Oct 06 14:11:04 +0200 2010:
>
>> Patch needed in 0.90
> AFAICT it's needed on Fedora 14, not Sugar 0.90.
> Are we sure yet this was an intentional change by libvte and not just a
> mistake? In the latter case we should probably make the setting depend
> on specific libvte versions so we don't break if they decide to use a
> different set of control codes (=>  different $TERM) in the future.

Hi Sascha,

thanks for your thoughts. I have overseen the fact that we actually do 
set it to xterm [1]. I am just experimenting a bit to see what is going on.

Regards,
    Simon

[1] 
http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/terminal/repos/mainline/blobs/master/terminal.py#line449