Bug#800832: mate-terminal: sets TERM to ‘xterm’ even though ‘xterm-256colors’ would be appropriate

[Axel]

Package: mate-terminal
Version: 1.8.1+dfsg1-4
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

This results in programs like E Links and Midnight Commander only offering 16 colour
interfaces, at least by default. Whereas some programs, like E Links, can just be set to
use 256 colours, others, like the Midnight Commander, will refuse to accept any such
setting.

A quick fix can be achieved by using the “Run a custom command instead of my shell”
setting (menu → Edit → Profile Preferences → Title and Command) and using this command:

env TERM=xterm-256color <shell>

e.g.:

env TERM=xterm-256color /bin/bash

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mate-terminal depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0           2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                 2.19-18+deb8u1
ii  libcairo2             1.14.0-2.1
ii  libdconf1             0.22.0-1
ii  libfontconfig1        2.11.0-6.3
ii  libfreetype6          2.5.2-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0    2.31.1-2+deb8u2
ii  libglib2.0-0          2.42.1-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0           2.24.25-3
ii  libice6               2:1.0.9-1+b1
ii  libpango-1.0-0        1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0   1.36.8-3
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0     1.36.8-3
ii  libsm6                2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  libvte9               1:0.28.2-5
ii  libx11-6              2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxext6              2:1.3.3-1
ii  mate-desktop-common   1.8.1+dfsg1-3+deb8u1
ii  mate-terminal-common  1.8.1+dfsg1-4
pn  python:any            <none>

mate-terminal recommends no packages.

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