Aterm

exvor · 11-04-2004, 11:07 AM

Hey everyone got me a strange problem. I compiled aterm recently on my laptop here and for some reason when I run some commands in it i get a warning that the terminal is not fully fuctional. Wondering if im missing something or a library or something.
ohh one of the commands that i get this error on is man

Thanks for all your help.

m00t00 · 11-04-2004, 11:43 AM

no. the problem is your TERM variable. These programs don't know what TERM=aterm is. Add an entry to your termcap, or just do it quick and dirty and export TERM=xterm

though I wouldnt reccomend the latter =]

exvor · 11-04-2004, 12:33 PM

Hmmm ok well I found termcap file in /etc directory but im not sure what kind of an entry I would put in there? Anyway it seams strange becuase I have compiled aterm before with slackware and have not had this issue so it just seams strange to me to have this problem now. But anyway I would post the termcap file here but for some reason I cant via a xterm or xedit ?

exvor · 11-04-2004, 01:49 PM

Hey everyone I seem to have found out what the problem is. When you start aterm it automaticly defaults to use rxvt rather then xterm I dont know why they would use this instead of xterm but who the hell knows. Anyway i dont have rxvt installed on my system and honestly dont want to install it because ill never use it. Any sugestions on how to get aterm to set the TERM variable to xterm would be helpfull at this point.

m00t00 · 11-04-2004, 05:16 PM

uhm.

export TERM=xterm

exvor · 11-04-2004, 11:32 PM

Sorry what i ment to say was is there a way to get aterm to use the correct term value of xterm rather then rxvt every time it stats without having to manually do a TERM=xterm command in that terminal. Or am I wasteing my time and this is something that is hardcoded into the system.

m00t00 · 11-05-2004, 06:37 PM

look in the aterm source.

I think theres an easier way to do it, but too bad, 'cause I dont know it =P

exvor · 11-28-2006, 04:35 PM

For future refrence there acutally is a way to do this Im only reposting in this thread in hope that its usefull to somone else in the future. And yes i know its VERY old.

The script below would reslove this issue

Code:

 
cat > /etc/profile.d/tinker-term.sh << "EOF"
# This will tinker with the value of TERM in order to convince certain
# apps that we can, indeed, display color in their window.

if [ -n "$COLORTERM" ]; then
  export TERM=xterm-color
fi

if [ "$TERM" = "xterm" ]; then
  export TERM=xterm-color
fi
EOF

This is part of the BLFS book regarding term play.