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#1 2025-08-02 10:48:26
- Efka
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How to change terminal for headless Arch host
Im running headless Arch inside VM and "echo $TERM" brings me to xterm-256-color but i would like to have Wezterm which i have installed from source.
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#2 2025-08-02 11:07:33
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Re: How to change terminal for headless Arch host
As with any environment variable, you'd change it where appropriate, depending on whether you want to set it system-wide or for a specific user only.
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#3 2025-08-02 12:53:23
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Re: How to change terminal for headless Arch host
https://wezterm.org/config/lua/config/term.html?h=term
Do NOT export TERM in some global profile or shell config!
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#4 2025-08-07 06:28:13
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Re: How to change terminal for headless Arch host
What do you mean "headless wezterm"? Headless usually means no video output at all.
Anyway, as seth said, it is perhaps a pretty bad idea to set the TERM globally, just set the default shell in whatever terminal emulator you are using (konsole, xterm, gnome-terminal, etc).
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#5 2025-08-07 06:38:31
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Re: How to change terminal for headless Arch host
I suspect the OP runs arch headless in the VM and ssh's into it and wezterm is the TE used on the host.
ncurses provides the wezterm terminfo and is most likely installed (because pretty much everything depends on ncurses through a couple of fundamental packages) so it would be ok to configure
term = "wezterm" in your .wezterm.lua
away from the stated there default of "xterm-256-color"
it is perhaps a pretty bad completely idiotic idea to set the TERM globally
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