Re: xterm-termite addition to dircolors.hin

[Pádraig Brady]

On 30/05/15 21:41, Lukas Sabota wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Termite is becoming an increaslingly popular terminal emulator for 
> tiling window managers and uses its own terminfo.  Would there be any 
> harm in adding "xterm-termite" to the default "dircolor -p" output so 
> that termite users don't need to add the entry by hand?  I don't see 
> much harm in this - it won't affect people that aren't using termite.  
> I've attached a patch for [coreutils.git]/src/dircolors.hin that simply 
> adds the one TERM line for xterm-termite.  What are thoughts about 
> applying this patch upstream?
> 
> Should I subscribe to "coreutils-bugs" and submit this there?
> 
> Let me know what you think - thanks!

This was discussed a little while back,
and I had a query on why termite needs to
distinguish its TERM like this (and add incompatibility):

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2015-01/msg00064.html

cheers,
Pádraig.