Arch Linux

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630861

can be fixed when added "export TERM=xterm" to "/etc/profile"

can you try to see if is working by reverting this ?

http://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?h=vte-0-26&id=0574bcfbd5c5925458ecdea0e6bbac6d65e30efc

if you don't know how, let me know and i'll compile you a package. don't forget to specify if you are on x86_64 or i686

yes, reverting works!! x86_64

(I remove "export TERM=xterm" from /etc/profile, and run "source /etc/profile")

I used patch from git with "patch -Rp1 -i ../revert.patch" and compile vte-0.26 again. Logout, log in.

Work now fine as old version 0.24.3

maybe you had in /etc/profile still the export. on bugzilla somebody tried that and is not fixed

yes, i have declare -x TERM="xterm", but is not via "export TERM=xterm" in /etc/profile.
How undeclare TERM?

please remove any workaround that you made and reboot. this is the best test that you can do.

i want to be sure is not exported anymore

i have no export TERM=xterm in /etc/profile, and i reboot ntb 2x, but this solution (patched vte) works:


[alois@lenovo ~]$ mc
TERM environment variable needs set.
[alois@lenovo ~]$ su
Heslo:
[root@lenovo alois]# pacman -Qi vte
Jméno : vte
Verze : 0.26.0-1
URL : http://www.gnome.org
Licence : LGPL
Skupiny : Nic
Poskytuje : Nic
Závisí na : gtk2>=2.22.0
Volitelné záv. : Nic
Požadovaný : roxterm
Konfliktní s : Nic
Nahrazuje : Nic
Vel. instalace : 3124,00 K
Zabalil : Ionut Biru <ibiru@archlinux.org>
Architektura : x86_64
Datum sestavení: Ne 26. září 2010, 21:10:58 CEST
Datum instalace: Pá 1. říjen 2010, 21:34:10 CEST
Důvod instalace: Výslovně nainstalován
Instal. skript : Ne
Popis : Virtual Terminal Emulator library

[root@lenovo alois]# pacman -U /home/ARCH/NEW/vte-0.26.0-1.1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
řeší se závislosti..
kontrolují se interní konflikty...

Cíle (1): vte-0.26.0-1.1

Celková velikost stahování: 0,00 MB
Celková velikost instalace: 3,05 MB

Pokračovat v instalaci? [A/n]
kontroluje se integrita balíčků...
(1/1) kontrola konfliktů souborů [########################################] 100%
(1/1) aktualizace vte [########################################] 100%
[root@lenovo alois]#

Closed all other roxterm terminals, run roxterm again and can run mc. Works for me without /etc/profile hack.

patched vte-0.26 with "patch -Rp1 -i ../revert.patch"

reverting the patch does not work for me. guake still fails here on x86_64.

Just chiming in, got this problem too, as might be obvious from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=105906

The error message I am getting is the TERM value is set to "dumb", which cripples a lot of apps (irssi amongst others).

i had prepared packages for 0.25.1, 0.25.90 and 0.25.91. lets start bisecting to find it.

http://pkgbuild.com/~ioni/vte/

start from 0.25.1 and upgrade until it breaks it

0.24.3 works.
0.25.1 does not.

edit: should be somewhere between 0.23.5 and 0.25.1

bisected and isolated to commit: http://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?id=dd08c50c6a6dd4349d3cbce271ddf4b741db8861 It's a pretty big one and contains probably pretty fundamental changes.

you should report on bugzilla. i think is more a problem with the terminals that haven't been updated to use the new stuff

done. lets see what Christian says about this.

The XFCE 'terminal' package also exhibits this breakage. It defaults TERM now to 'linux' regardless of what you have set in the preferences. Quite annoying for them to break this fundamental stuff...

check out vte-0.26.0-4

works fine with guake.

Still broken with XFCE Terminal.

Right Click > Preferences > Advanced Tab > $TERM setting: --> 'xterm-256color'

Then restart, and type in shell:
$ echo $TERM
xterm

@Dan https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=vte

i cannot fix it myself

initial bug was: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631589

Yeah, I actually thought I was clicking the "request reopen" button and not actually reopening it so you could do what you want, but I at least think some people might care that it isn't fully resolved. I also don't have a GNOME bugzilla account, so this is going to take a lot of effort for me to report. :)

Does this still apply? VTE is 0.28.0 now and I cannot reproduce the bug.

I'm still seeing the behavior I saw in #comment67874 ('xterm' instead of 'xterm-256color' as set in the preferences).

vte 0.28 works (Gnome3)

This isn't a bug in VTE, it's a bug in some terminals like Xfce's Terminal in how they use the VTE API.

You need to set TERM with vte_pty_set_term() on a VtePty object before starting VTE. An existing TERM variable in the environment is ignored, because then it would be set properly when starting from another terminal.

vte_terminal_fork_command_full() doesn't let you run vte_pty_set_term() (since it creates it's own pty object, and it has to be set before starting it). That's possibly a bug, but could also be called a design decision (it's just a high-level convenience function). So the Xfce devs would have to switch to the slightly lower level way of starting up VTE, otherwise they're stuck with $TERM being xterm.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640940 <- For reference, this was a bug report by an Xfce developer about it, and the response was basically NOTABUG/WONTFIX, but the issue never had the status changed.