Comment 3 for bug 651578

I see this too.

This causes some serious issues with my zshrc, as it uses terminfo settings to bind keys - not having TERM set causes zshrc to error out.

My symptoms seem identical to David Zanetti's above - the other settings are set, but not TERM. Even when I set TERM to something other than xterm (e.g. xterm-color) roxterm doesn't set it:

env | grep -i rox
COLORTERM=roxterm
ROXTERM_NUM=5
ROXTERM_ID=0x10c0800
ROXTERM_PID=15682
mjackson@anduril ~ %