X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 23:01:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Carlo Florendo cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: probe and set terminal type when shell is spawned In-Reply-To: <4500C7E6.4060302@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <4500C7E6.4060302@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Carlo Florendo wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible for me to automatically set the TERM variable in bash > depending on the type of my terminal. > > For example, these are the things I want to accomplish: > > 1. If I ssh into the cygwin box from an xterm on a Linux box, I would > like TERM=xterm-color. > 2. If I simply spawn a DOS-like shell, I'd like TERM=ansi > 3. If I spawn an rxvt console, I'd like TERM=xterm. > > I know this can be done manually but would it be possible for us to > create a script to do this? > If so, what cygwin program can we use to probe the terminal type of the > connecting client? The terminal emulator is ultimately responsible for setting TERM appropriately, and usually does. The only problem is with TERM=xterm vs. TERM=xterm-color -- most xterms (including rxvt) will use the former as the default TERM value. You can override the TERM value that xterm or rxvt sets via command-line options or X resources, though. If you spawn a "DOS-like shell" (by which I assume you mean a bash running in a Windows console window), TERM is automatically set to "cygwin". You can use that fact in your scripts to change it to "ansi" if you wish. To my knowledge, it is not possible in general to automatically detect the remote TERM type. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/