Detecting used terminal application (iTerm2)

[Mikko Ohtamaa]

Hi,

Can one detect what terminal application is being used on an SSH remote host? I want to know the actual application, not TERM env in the question.

I'd like to detect iTerm 2 / Terminal.app so I could set OSX specific keyboard mappings instead of PC keyboard mappings.

(See ALT+arrow moving between words in ZSH and iTerm 2 )

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[Daniel Serodio]

I suggest you use zkbd to configure keybindings (see my answer to your superuser.com question).

HTH,

Daniel Serodio

[George Nachman]

iTerm2 adds this to your environment:

TERM_PROGRAM=iTerm.app

I believe Terminal.app does something similar.

[TJ Luoma]

On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 3:12 PM, George Nachman wrote:

> Term2 adds this to your environment:
>
> TERM_PROGRAM=iTerm.app
>
> I believe Terminal.app does something similar.

Indeed, I had the same problem.

% printenv | fgrep Terminal
TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal

However, the OP said:

> Can one detect what terminal application is being used on an SSH remote host? I want to know the actual application, not TERM env in the question.

If you are logged into a Mac on the Console and using either iTerm or Terminal, you can use TERM_PROGRAM. But if you then ssh out, TERM_PROGRAM is no longer set.

At least that's how it worked for me.

So I'm not sure this will help.

TjL

[George Nachman]

Isn't there some way to tell ssh to pass on certain environment vars, though?

[David Abdurachmanov]

On 2012.05.22, at 23:25, George Nachman wrote:

> Isn't there some way to tell ssh to pass on certain environment vars, though?

man ssh_config

SendEnv
Specifies what variables from the local environ(7) should be sent to the server.