the kiZZ notes » TERM http://kizzx2.com/blog random stupid ideas from a narcissistic chode Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:25:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 cygwin: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional http://kizzx2.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/07/cygwin-warning-terminal-is-not-fully-functional/ http://kizzx2.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/07/cygwin-warning-terminal-is-not-fully-functional/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:59:03 +0000 kiZZ kiZZ http://kizzx2.com/blog/?p=90 I recently encountered an error where when I do a less in cygwin it goes WARNING: terminal is not fully functional Quite some people seem to have encountered this problem before and there are some discussion threads on the Web, but I couldn’t find a page that pointed out the direct solution after some googling. Here’s what I did to fix the problem: It turns out that the environment variable TERM is somehow set to dumb instead of the normal cygwin. Apparently the dumb terminal is not as fully functional as cygwin. Here’s what I did to confirm the problem:

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$ echo $TERM
dumb

I got less working properly again by doing:

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$ export TERM=cygwin
$ less

It turned out that somehow the $TERM environment variable got set to dumb. To fix that, simply run sysdm.cpl from a Windows command prompt, and delete the environment variable TERM. cygwin will then default TERM to cygwin

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