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Inheriting TERM variable leads to broken terminal #25

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mpickering opened this issue Feb 2, 2021 · 4 comments
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Inheriting TERM variable leads to broken terminal #25

mpickering opened this issue Feb 2, 2021 · 4 comments

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@mpickering
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nixos-shell will inherit the TERM variable from the user environment which leads to a broken terminal in some situations.

For example, I have TERM=rxvt-unicode-256color, which is inherited and leads to a broken terminal. Probably because rxvt_unicode is not in the system packages?
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Mic92 commented Feb 2, 2021

Does inheriting $TERMINFO_DIRS fix this issue?

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No, it's still broken inheriting that variable.

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Mic92 commented Feb 3, 2021

I have:

echo $TERMINFO_DIRS
/home/joerg/.nix-profile/share/terminfo

I assume it has your system profile in there? So maybe something like TERMINFO_DIRS=$(realpath $TERMINFO_DIRS) could fix it.

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Mic92 commented Aug 14, 2024

One would need to add all terminals to environment.systemPackages to fix this properly.

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