Arch Linux

I was wondering why the F1-F5 keys were not working as documented in neither Konsole nor in Xterm. I then checked in the linux console and surelly those keys worked fine there.

After further inspection, I've noticed that my ~/.bashrc (that came from /etc/skel/.bashrc) contained the line:

test -n "$DISPLAY" && export TERM=xterm-color

Now this is clearly a mistake!! /etc/skel/.bashrc should be corrected.

I think the basic problem (IIRC Slackware had a similar problem once too) is that the "xterm-color" terminfo is actually unmaintained, and not updated at all. xterm is much more up-to-date.

But also, you should not set the TERM variable blindly, the terminal program itself (be it Konsole, Xterm, rxvt, gnome terminal, etc...) will set it to the correct value before starting the shell.

And surelly, after commenting that line in my ~/.bashrc everything works fine, F1-F5 in alsamixer, colors in vim and ls are also fine, and I've not encountered any other problems since then.

The filesystem-0.7.2-2 package should be corrected, please.