Germán A. Racca wrote:
> How to know if I'm using an xterm or a gnome-terminal from command line?
>
> The output of "echo $TERM" is "xterm" from both of them.
>
> How to know?
Well, it looks as though gnome-terminal sets $COLORTERM, whereas xterm
doesn’t. But xterm doesn’t unset it, either, so if you get a user
starting up a gnome-terminal, thinking “Yuck!”¹ and using that
gnome-terminal solely to run xterm, then the xterm will inherit the
$COLORTERM setting.
Xterm has its own $XTERM_ variables, so you could test for those. But
gnome-terminal doesn’t unset those, either, so you could get a user
starting up am xterm, thinking “Yuck!”¹ and using that xterm solely to
run gnome-terminal…
And then you’re going to get someone using Konsole.
What are you trying to do?
James.
¹There’s no accounting for taste…
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