What is an "rxvt" terminal, and how do I turn it off?

infornography · 07-27-2004, 05:14 AM

I am trying to use use the MUD client TinyFugue in an aterm just like I have done for years in SuSE (I'm now on Slack). But when I start it it complains that "rxvt" terminal is unsupported and doesn't work correctly. I know I could just use xterm or something but I would prefer just getting aterm working.

I tried google but it came up with far too many irrelevent results. Anybodu know how to fix it?

EDIT: I should point out that it works fine in every other terminal, except gnome terminal which just can't backspace when the program is running.

ToniT · 07-27-2004, 06:51 AM

rxvt is one terminal emulation type, named after the famous rxvt terminal emulator
[rxvt (ouR XVT) - a VT102 emulator for the X window system].

Many other terminal emulators use the rxvt emulation type (other most common alternatives are "xterm", "console", vt100, etc.).

If there is a problem with a certain mud client not knowing the rxvt protocol, you can either a) bluff your terminal emulator to look like something else (eg. type 'export TERM=xterm' or 'export TERM=vt100' in bash), or b) use an other terminal emulator.

EDIT: or c) fix the software in question.

Cerbere · 07-28-2004, 02:33 AM

Try starting aterm with the '-tn xterm' option. From the aterm man page:

Code:

       -tn termname
              This option specifies the name of the terminal type
              to  be  set  in the TERM environment variable. This
              terminal type must exist in the termcap(5) database
              and  should  have  li#  and  co#  entries; resource
              termName.

You may also try to append the termcap or terminfo entries (in the /doc/etc/ directory of the aterm tarball) to your termcap or terminfo file.

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere

Heimskringla · 07-26-2005, 03:53 PM

For some reason, tf and rxvt don't get along like xterm and tf do. My solution to the keybinding problem (for backspace and delete in tf 5.0b7) was to put the following in my .tfrc

Code:

/def key_backspace=/dokey bspc
/def key_delete=/dokey bspc