Re: Can't get less to work with gnome-terminal

[Haukur Hreinsson <hawk gagarin is>]

Jaka Mocnik wrote:
[...]
> as of sometime before 1.0.7 release, gnome-terminal sets the TERM
> variable to dumb. god knows why... do an 'export TERM=xterm' or 'export
> TERM=linux' first.
You don't (or rather shouldn't) have to do that. You can select the
terminal class in the preferences dialog. The problem is that it seems
to get reset every now and then to the default, which, as you say, has
just been changed to "dumb" (and hopefully someone other than god does
know why).