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Birds

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[SOLVED] The stock Arch Linux terminal and its configurating

Hi!

I want to use Vim in Arch Linux, but its Alt+key mappings don't work with the stock terminal. By "stock" I mean the one that opens if I click on the "Console" application in GNOME.

The problem with mappings is described in the Vim docs, but I don't know the name of the terminal and thus can't google the ways to configure it. "echo $TERM" reports "xterm-256color", but as far as I can tell it's not xterm.

So can anybody tell me how I figure out what terminal I'm using? Thanks!

Last edited by Birds (2024-07-25 16:21:58)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] The stock Arch Linux terminal and its configurating

Either gnome-terminal or gnome-console.  Just look at the output of ps or top to see which is running.

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sukolyn

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Re: [SOLVED] The stock Arch Linux terminal and its configurating

hey,

terminal's name is available in $TERM, and it may be useful in vim's config, as partial name, and maybe as a regex...

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Birds

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Re: [SOLVED] The stock Arch Linux terminal and its configurating

terminal's name is available in $TERM ?

Yes, as I said, $TERM is "xterm-256color", but the stock Arch Linux GNOME terminal is definitely not xterm.

and it may be useful in vim's config ?

I don't know yet, but I think for Alt+key mappings to work in Vim in the stock terminal something should be changed on the OS level, not in Vim.

Birds

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Re: [SOLVED] The stock Arch Linux terminal and its configurating

Either gnome-terminal or gnome-console.  Just look at the output of ps or top to see which is running.

Thank you, I did "ps", then "top", and neither "gnome-terminal" nor "gnome-console" were in the lists. "top", however, showed (among other processes) "kgx" - perhaps, that's the terminal.

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Re: [SOLVED] The stock Arch Linux terminal and its configurating

kgx is gnome-console.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] The stock Arch Linux terminal and its configurating

There's no "stock Arch Linux terminal", gnome-console is a wrapper around VTE4, which is maybe easier to google than "console"…

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