Where is system-wide TERM set?

[Leroy Tennison]

What started this is I have some non-GUI systems where vi works fine on some but does odd things when Home/End keys are pressed on others.  They are all Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS, all kernel 4.4.0-174-generic and x86_64.  Theoretically they were installed identically.

I found that the difference was in the TERM setting, 'echo $TERM' on "working" systems returns xterm, on "non-working" systems it returns linux.  Using "grep -r 'TERM.*xterm' *" in /etc returns /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.  However, its test (locale charmap) returns UTF-8 in both cases which should set TERM to uxterm (not true in either case). Using "update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator" shows /usr/bin/lxterm, priority 30, auto mode in both cases.

So where is TERM set?  Thanks in advance for any help.

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Leroy Tennison
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