New VTE and Xfce's Terminal: TERM value not set; falls back to "dumb"

.:B:. · 2010-10-02 14:38:30

I upgraded to vte 0.26 yesterday, today I started my laptop again, and I get my terminal behaving strangely. Irssi doesn't launch, and if I try to issue simple commands like
clear, I get a message that that kind of functions is not supported. Same thing with Irssi, which I launch with a Terminal call from my menu (it complains about the terminal not supporting certain functions). And behold - my terminal is as dumb as it looks:

$ echo TERM
dumb

The funny thing is Xfce's terminal has xterm-256color set as terminal type, but it does not seem to have any effect anymore (it worked before).

I have found a similar bug report on Ubuntu's Launchpad. I can of course use export TERM=xterm-256color, but that's not a real solution in the long term (it's just a hack, Terminal's terminal type setting ability seems to be broken). Another google search suggested vte had changed behaviour and e.g. Ubuntu had 'xterm' hardcoded as a TERM value in gnome-terminal.

Any input on this? I guess I should file a bug report too .

wonder · 2010-10-02 14:52:30

kinda funny that you were able to find that bug on launchpad and not in our tracker. hint, search term vte

Last edited by wonder (2010-10-02 14:53:17)

karol · 2010-10-02 15:00:20

wonder wrote:

kinda funny that you were able to find that bug on launchpad and not in our tracker. hint, search term vte

I think people often look in the wrong project; if you search for 'vte' in e.g. Pacman-related bugs, you'll get zilch.

.:B:. · 2010-10-02 15:02:35

I googled what my terminal told me, the TERM value being set to dumb. That does not appear in the bug on FlySpray .

For future reference, and for those so unlucky only to get the 'dumb terminal' message: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21007

jarryson · 2010-10-02 19:30:03

meet the same problem in tilda. use `env TERM=xterm tilda' to solve this problem temporarily..

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#1 2010-10-02 14:38:30

New VTE and Xfce's Terminal: TERM value not set; falls back to "dumb"

#2 2010-10-02 14:52:30

Re: New VTE and Xfce's Terminal: TERM value not set; falls back to "dumb"

#3 2010-10-02 15:00:20

Re: New VTE and Xfce's Terminal: TERM value not set; falls back to "dumb"

#4 2010-10-02 15:02:35

Re: New VTE and Xfce's Terminal: TERM value not set; falls back to "dumb"

#5 2010-10-02 19:30:03

Re: New VTE and Xfce's Terminal: TERM value not set; falls back to "dumb"

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