termcap and TERM detection

E. Eusey elcoocooi at earthlink.net
Tue Jan 3 21:51:59 PST 2006


Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 03:29 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> 
> 
> Seems this applies to both rxvt and urxvt, To target urxvt 
> specifically use:
> URxvt*termName: rxvt-unicode
> 
> Looking at the Makefile in the rxvt-unicode port I find:
> CONFIGURE_ARGS=         --enable-shared --enable-everything \ 
> --with-term=rxvt
> Which I would guess changes the default from rxvt-unicode to
> rxvt probably because rxvt-unicode is not normally available in 
> the termcap file. You could also consider modifying the Makefile 
> and rebuilding the port.
> 
> Malcolm Kay
> 

Brilliant.  Thanks much.

Evan


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