[Nix-dev] fixing the annoying "Cannot find terminfo entry for 'rxvt-unicode'"

[Florian Friesdorf]

On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:56:02 +0200, Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> wrote:
> urxvt ships its own terminal file which you can install system wide using NixOS's option pathsToLink = ["/"] easily.
> 
> Additionally adding this to the system wide bashrc:
> 
>         # try to find current terminal setting in system or user profile:
>         for p in {/var/run/current-system/sw,~/.nix-profile}/share/terminfo; do
>           [ -e "$p/${TERM:0:1}/$TERM" ] && {
>             export TERMINFO="$p"
>             # looks like we have to reset TERM after telling zsh where to find TERMINFO ?
>             TERM=$TERM
>           }
>         done
>         unset p
> 
> will set TERMINFO accordingly and suddenly mutt, screen etc can be
> started without tweaking TERM first.

implemented with r31143-5:
- pathsToLink includes '/share/terminfo' by default
- /etc/static/profile set TERMINFO_DIRS based on NIX_PROFILES and resets
  TERM afterwards

With that terminfo is found in the system, default and user profiles.

thanks to Michael Raskin and Marc Weber for the right pointers!

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