[wellylug] terminal types

[Richard Hector]

Richard Hector wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Under Debian, all the terminal programs appear to have been modified to
> append "-debian" to the terminal type, eg "xterm-debian". I can't figure
> out why they needed to do this, and it has the result that shen I telnet
> or ssh into a non-debian box, it doesn't have the appropriate
> termcap/terminfo entry, and doesn't have a clue what I'm running. The
> same is true from any linux VC (terminal type "linux") to something
> other than linux.
> 
> Anybody know a good way to deal with this? I'm sick of setting the TERM
> variable manually every time I ssh to uni ...

Oops - should have done some research first :-(

It's gnome-terminal I was having trouble with, and it has a commandline
option to set the terminal variable, so that's OK.

The linux VC is still a problem, though.

I'll have a look for some docs, but any suggestions welcome.

Thanks,

Richard