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Date:      Thu, 8 Nov 2001 02:53:15 -0500
From:      parv <parv_@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Automatically setting TERM=xterm-color in Konsole ?
Message-ID:  <20011108025315.A57718@moo.holy.cow>

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in message <20011107185614.E9173@moondog.org>, 
wrote Elden Fenison thusly...
>
> * Ernst de Haan [10/03/2001 16:20]:
> > That works. It's a dirty hack, but it works :-)
> 
> Another solution that I stumbled across is putting the term type in my
> .Xdefaults file. That works for rxvt... not sure about konsole. Here's
> the line:
> 
> rxvt*termName: xterm-color
> 
> > > Add this to your .bashrc (or equivalent for your shell) :
> > > 
> > > if [ "$TERM" == "xterm" ]; then
> > >         export TERM=xterm-color
> > > fi

a variation of the above would be...

if [ ${TERM:0:5} == "xterm" -o ${TERM:0:4} == "rxvt" ]; then
  TERM=xterm-color
  export TERM
fi

...i needed to add "rxvt" bit after upgrading aterm from 0.4.0
version to 0.4.2.

- parv

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