Re: Cannot set $TERM in screen -- it always defaults to xterm

[Thor Andreassen]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 05:15:22AM +0000, Leo Alekseyev wrote:
> On Ubuntu 9.10, GNU screen ignores any attempt to set the TERM variable --
> either by setting term="xterm-256color" in .screenrc, or using :term command 
> in
> screen itself, or using a -T command line switch. Whatever I do, $TERM is 
> stuck
> at xterm. Somehow screen is able to display 256 colors under gnome-terminal, 
> but
> under xterm it defaults to 8.  I tried reinstalling from the repositories and
> compiling from source, and I still see this behavior.  Can someone explain 
> what
> is going on and how to fix it?  TIA.

What shell are you using, and does the problem persist if you start your
shell without config files?

-- 
Thor