Once upon a time, Pádraig Brady <P(a)draigBrady.com> said:
The main caveat with per terminal settings is that
it might be desired to provide config options per terminal.
Though I suppose users can always override TERM in their
startup files in the unlikely case they need to change
back to 'xterm' for example.
I still use plain old xterm (the terminal program), and it allows you to
override the TERM variable in a couple of ways. There's a command-line
option, and there's the old X resource termName. The newer terminal
programs have configuration menus for various things; do any of them set
it there? If they don't, I would think it would be relatively easy to
add (and hopefully upstreams would accept such patches).
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.