terminator sets TERM=dumb, not TERM=xterm

[Lucian Adrian Grijincu]

In terminator:
  $ echo $TERM
  dumb

In gnome-terminal:
  $ echo $TERM
  xterm

This variable is checked by some applications and is used to determine whether they can display colors and other features.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

I've seen this too, exactly when it started happening I can't say though.

A work around is to explicitly set TERM in .profile, .bashrc etc.

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

This seems to be a behaviour change in libvte. We now follow GNOME Terminal's behaviour of hardcoding TERM=xterm as of trunk revision 1097. Thanks for the report!

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

0.95 is now released.

[vinyll (agnanov)]

Had the same issue after the update from 10.04 to 10.10.

Adding the line :

export TERM=xterm

in my ~/.zshrc file did the trick PERMANENTLY !
Now works again with Guake.

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

vinyll: you should have Terminator 0.95 from the 10.10 repositories, which includes a fix for this bug. If you are somehow able to reproduce it without your export in .zshrc I would be interested in some more debugging information. You mention Guake though - this is a bug report about Terminator, not Guake :)