On Sat, 18 Oct 2025, Thomas Klausner wrote:
Am I using TERMINFO_DIRS wrong or is it broken? export TERM=xterm-direct export TERMINFO_DIRS=/usr/share/misc zsh: can't find terminal definition for xterm-direct i.e. zsh is fine with xterm-direct as TERM until I set TERMINFO_DIRS to /usr/share/misc, which is the default directory of the terminfo file.
TERMINFO_DIRS is misnamed. You have to supply a colon-separated list of *files* (w/o the .cdb extension). TERMINFO_DIRS=/usr/share/misc/terminfo:/some/path/file1:/ano/ther/file2 -RVP