Termite terminal support

[mbid]

I'm using the terminal app termite. Yi seems to need get along with it very well:

[nix-shell:~]$ yi -f vty
yi: setupTerm: Couldn't look up terminfo entry "xterm-termite"

Yi is working in xterm and terminator. If this is low-hanging fruit, I'd love some pointers to get started myself.

[juliapath]

As a workaround you could just masquerade as xterm-256color:

$ TERM=xterm-256color yi -f vty

The problem however is not with Yi, but with your system. Maybe this helps: NixOS/nixpkgs#8473

[mbid]

I guess it's a problem with termite, because I'm on arch linux. Anyway, just adding export TERM=xterm-256colorto my.bashrc` fixed it for me. Thanks!

[noughtmare]

I can't reproduce this.

The setupterm error should only be shown if the setupterm c function returns an error... So maybe something is wrong with your curses setup?

Can you compile (with -lcurses) and run this code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <term.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main() {
    int ret = 0;
    char* term = getenv("TERM");
    printf("%s\n",term);
    setupterm(term,1,&ret);
    printf("%d\n", ret);
    return 0;
}

it should return:

xterm-termite
1

[juliapath]

@mbid In that case do you have termite-terminfo installed? I assumed you were on NixOS, because of the [nix-shell:~]$.

[mbid]

@janpath Yes, termite-terminfo is installed.

@noughtmare The c program does exactly what it you said it should.