weird message
 

does anyone know what this means and how to make it stop saying it? when i open up a shell tab it says: No value for $TERM and no -T specified

???
i have no clue

Not enough info for an intelligent answer.. so I'll WAG that your terminal's configuration file has something missing or a typo.

wish i could give you more info but the only thing i have left out is i am using redhat 7.3
thats the only message i don't know what it means or why it says it but i want it to stop if i can

gnome-terminal?

kde

Try setting the preferences for the kterm (I think, I use Eterm, myself). If that doesn't fix it, see:

man <applicationname>
or
info <applicationname>

for any hints.

As a last resort, delete all directories named .kde<anything else> and re-start X.

You will have the default desktop and configs re-generated.

You can usually find the configuration files for something by looking for a file named .<applicationname>rc