Guake isn't providing a TERM

[qense]

Since Guake 4.2-1 the drop-down terminal has stopped providing the 'TERM' environment variable, breaking some terminal applications (like 'nano').

This bug only occurs when launching Guake on logging in, or via the GNOME Panel run dialogue, when you start Guake from GNOME Terminal it does work.

This bug was originally reported by WalterCool? on Launchpad in Ubuntu at < https://launchpad.net/bugs/621927>.

[pingou]

I was reported the same problem on  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/guake-0.4.2-2.fc14 But while my guake is started as login in I could not reproduce this bug.

[qense]

Replying to pingou:

I was reported the same problem on  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/guake-0.4.2-2.fc14 But while my guake is started as login in I could not reproduce this bug.

Does Fedora have a different way of starting applications after login than Ubuntu?

[pingou]

I use System > Preferences > Startup Applications

But my guake and its configuration are kinda old :-)

[mrmacman2u]

I can definetly confirm this under Ubuntu 10.10 beta (and all the alpha's) which is present if Guake is started on log in OR manually.

I'm attaching screenshots of the problem on the launchpad bug report as I can't do it here.

[Maurice]

This bug is still present using Guake 0.4.2 on Ubuntu Maverick 10.10 beta.  https://bugs.launchpad.net/guake/+bug/621632 also relates to this bug, as well as some weird 'refresh' effects that are making the terminal hard to use.

This bug was also present in the Terminator package on Ubuntu, (bug:  https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/621606) and was traced back to a change in libvte according to the assignee. They have fixed the problem so perhaps their solution will work for Guake as well?

[qense]

I've been told that due to a change in 'libvte', which is where 'python-vte' comes from, the terminals using VTE have to set the TERM variable themselves. I think that this is also the case with Guake.

I hope you don't mind I'm upping the status to 'critical', but this bug is preventing a lot of users from using Guake as a proper terminal. Applications that rely on 'ncurses' or something similar have stopped working in Guake.

[sylvestre]

TERM issue

[sylvestre]

The uploaded patch should fix this issue. Please consider its integration in Guake 0.4.3.

[qense]

A patch added to VTE in Ubuntu (maverick-proposed still atm) fixed this bug. It is therefore not an issue in Guake, but in VTE. I'm closing this bug as invalid.

[pingou]

This is not an ubuntu-specific problem. Do you have a source for this information that we can report it on Debian and Fedora ?

[qense]

The patch that was used to fix this issue can be seen at < http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mathieu-tl/vte/lp621927/revision/78>. I'm sure it will be forwarded to GNOME Bugzilla, where it ought to be committed.

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