Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:04:07 -0500 From: "E. Eusey" <elcoocooi@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: termcap and TERM detection Message-ID: <43BAE6C7.9000700@earthlink.net>
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The secondary screen functionality on my xterm (rxvt-unicode) was acting strangly. So, following the advice at: http://cvs.schmorp.de/browse/*checkout*/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.html I added an rxvt-unicode termcap entry to my termcap file and ran cap_mkdb. After login, I'm able to 'setenv TERM rxvt-unicode' and everything works perfectly. However, when running urxvt initially, it detects the $TERM as 'rxvt', not 'rxvt-unicode'. How is the $TERM variable determined by the system? Is there a way to detect my new termcap entry? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Evan
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