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Re: GUI starts up with terminal
From: |
Mike Miller |
Subject: |
Re: GUI starts up with terminal |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:09:23 -0400 |
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:30 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>
> Qterminal does appear to behave differently depending on what the
> value of TERM is when it starts. For example, try
>
> TERM=vt102 ./run-octave
>
> vs.
>
> TERM=dumb ./run-octave
>
> I have no idea why it would need to do that. It seems overly complex
> for it to try to emulate multiple terminal types. It seems to me that
> one relatively common feature rich terminal would be sufficient, and
> that it should simply always behave that way. But maybe I'm missing
> some reasonable justification for providing multiple terminal
> personalities.
I agree, that doesn't make sense to me. Xterm and gnome-terminal
always override TERM, that seems more correct.
I looked into the Konsole source code from which this forked, there is
an application-level setting that lets the user specify environment
variables, including TERM with a default value of xterm. If no TERM is
in the environment it is defaulted to xterm. So at a minimum we should
set TERM to xterm if not in the environment, as you said. We could add
a terminal type to the GUI settings if needed.
The emulator does seem to handle a superset of terminal types in the
Vt102Emulation class so I suppose it is intended behavior. Konsole
even includes a README.linux.console indicating that some users may
want to run
TERM=linux konsole
and get Linux console-like behavior.
--
mike
- Re: GUI starts up with terminal, (continued)
- Re: GUI starts up with terminal, Mike Miller, 2012/08/23
- Re: GUI starts up with terminal, John W. Eaton, 2012/08/24
- Re: GUI starts up with terminal, Mike Miller, 2012/08/24
- Re: GUI starts up with terminal, John W. Eaton, 2012/08/24
- Re: GUI starts up with terminal, Mike Miller, 2012/08/24
- Re: GUI starts up with terminal, John W. Eaton, 2012/08/24
- Re: GUI starts up with terminal, Michael Goffioul, 2012/08/24
- Re: GUI starts up with terminal, John W. Eaton, 2012/08/24
- Re: GUI starts up with terminal,
Mike Miller <=
- Re: GUI starts up with terminal, John W. Eaton, 2012/08/23