Re: [gdm-list] problem with dircolors

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Clive:

This seems very distro specific.  It might be better to work with your
distro to fix /etc/profile rather than hacking GDM in a distro specific
way.  I don't think setting TERM=linux is very portable.  Looking at
an older version of GDM (2.14 and 2.16) I don't see GDM's Xsession
script setting TERM.  So perhaps your distro used to apply this patch
to the GDM Xsession script but now doesn't?

Brian


> I have just upgraded to gdm-2.18.3 and I found that I was not getting 
> LS_COLORS set when I logged in. I investigated the problem and found 
> that dircolors was being run in /etc/profile via the Xsessions script, 
> but it was returning nothing because TERM was not set.
>
> I checked on the old version of gdm I had and saw that in the Xsession 
> there was included a check for TERM being set to something meaningful 
> before calling profile. When I added the following to my 2.18.3 Xsession 
> file it set LS_COLORS  correctly
>
> # check for a valid TERM to get correct LS_COLOR from profile
> if [ -z $TERM -o "$TERM" = "dumb" ]; then
>     export TERM=linux
> fi
>
>
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