f. gr wrote:
Frank Terbeck [2013-05-01T21:40+0200]:
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What's the value of "$TERM" in your running shell session?
It's 'xterm-256color' (setting up within $HOME/.zshrc.local file)
This is what I hinted at on the zsh mailing list already.
Do *NOT* mess with $TERM unless you _know_ what you're doing is correct.
The linux console is not xterm. Xterm would also allow terminal title setting, which the setup then tries. The correct $TERM for the linux console is "linux".
Note that there are very few cases where setting TERM makes sense at all. For example, most modern versions of xterm support both "xterm" and "xterm-256color". Tmux supports "screen" and "screen-256color"...
But you cannot just TERM as you please. It has consequences for programs running inside the terminal (such as zsh). If you'd set TERM to "xterm-256color" for rxvt for example, you're asking for trouble and things are going to break.
So, the short answer is: Don't mess with $TERM.
Regards, Frank