Request feedback from linux users.

[jamestalmage]

Linux has so many different flavors of Terminal emulators, including numerous VTE based ones. I'm not sure the logic here is enough.

@sindresorhus, @qix-, got any linux users who helped sort things out on supports-color that you could ping here?

[sindresorhus]

Maybe @KayLeung @kamioftea

[langpavel]

I'm on linux, running GNOME Terminal 3.28.2 using VTE 0.52.2:

$ echo $VTE_VERSION
5202

$ node
> process.env.VTE_VERSION
'5202'

Links work perfectly. But note that VTE_VERSION is without dots

[WillForan]

• xterm and alacritty only populate TERM, not either TERM_PROGRAM nor VTE_VERSION.
• WezTerm set it's name in TERM_PROGRAM (but uses xterm-256 for TERM? maybe an issue in my config?)

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(alacritty and WezTerm supports OSC8/hyperlinks but xterm does not. yet.)

alacritty -e bash -c "node -e 'e=process.env;console.log(e.TERM,e.TERM_PROGRAM,e.VTE_VERSION)' > /tmp/alacrity.txt"
wezterm -e bash -c "node -e 'e=process.env;console.log(e.TERM,e.TERM_PROGRAM,e.VTE_VERSION)' > /tmp/terms-wezterm.txt"
xterm -e "node -e 'e=process.env;console.log(e.TERM,e.TERM_PROGRAM,e.VTE_VERSION)' > /tmp/terms-xterm.txt"
grep ^ /tmp/terms-*|column -ts'[: ]'

app      $TERM       $TERM_PROGRAM $VTE_VERSION
alacrity alacritty       undefined  undefined
wezterm  xterm-256color  WezTerm    undefined
xterm    xterm-256color  undefined  undefined