[CentOS] Problems setting terminal size in termcap/xterm

[Marcelo M. Garcia]

Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:55, Marcelo M. Garcia
> <marcelo.maia.garcia at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to set the terminal size in /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm, but
>> it seems that CentOS doesn't look at this file.
> 
> Works for me (CentOS 4, opening "gnome-terminal").
> 
> What does "echo $TERM" output for you? If it does not output "xterm"
> that might be the reason why it does not work...
> 
> HTH,
> Filipe

Hi
Here is the output of $TERM
> newt (Linux)$ echo $TERM
> xterm
> newt (Linux)$ 

I know this works in RHEL/CentOS 4.x and Fedora >10, but not in CentOS 
5.x (I'm not sure about RHEL 5.x).

The question is if someone else has the same problem.

Thanks

Marcelo