[Konsole-devel] What terminal type is konsole?

[Steve]

Waldo Bastian wrote:

> 
> It is mostly xterm but xterm adds new options once in a while so xterm and 
> xterm may not be the same. In KDE 1.x we used to have our own terminal 
> definition but that gives problems when you do a remote login to a machine 
> that doesn't have KDE installed. OTOH most systems have an entry for xterm, 
> so that's what we use.

In other words konsole is different from xterm, and if you need to 
identify konsole versus xterm you are SOL?

Steve