urxvt looks terrible

[mimosa]

My one remaining niggle is why the line in user-settings-fluxbox's .bashrc is:

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export TERM=xterm

and not

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export TERM=rxvt-unicode

Indeed, everything seems to work OK without exporting any value for that environment variable.

[gapan]

rxvt-unicode is not a valid value for the TERM variable. Look in /usr/share/terminfo/*/* for valid values. TERM=xterm works without problems for most X terminals in most cases.

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man terminfo

for more information.

[mimosa]

Got it.

Is there any reason why my existing .bashrc *doesn't* export that variable? I imagine that's how the file was created by the Ratpoison install disk - without any such line.

[gapan]

Is there any reason why my existing .bashrc *doesn't* export that variable?

Because it's not set explicitly in other environments as other terminals don't really need it.

I imagine that's how the file was created by the Ratpoison install disk - without any such line.

Yes.

[thom1]

When I tried to run screen, I was told

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$TERM too long - sorry.

Hi,

Sorry if this post is off topic.
I suggest you to switch from screen (old and buggy) to tmux (very very powerful).

Have a nice day

[fredg]

I suggest you to switch from screen (old and buggy) to tmux (very very powerful).

I agree, tmux is now in the -current/14.0 repo.

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