From 29dd5ae605617a470b9ee95d7b939cd335401013 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jon Parise <jon@indelible.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 19:11:54 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] termio: explain why we're removing VTE_VERSION

---
 src/termio/Exec.zig | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/termio/Exec.zig b/src/termio/Exec.zig
index ec5d3ffc0..1a3b8cad0 100644
--- a/src/termio/Exec.zig
+++ b/src/termio/Exec.zig
@@ -856,9 +856,11 @@ const Subprocess = struct {
             env.remove("GHOSTTY_MAC_APP");
         }
 
-        // Don't leak these environment variables to child processes.
+        // VTE_VERSION is set by gnome-terminal and other VTE-based terminals.
+        // We don't want our child processes to think we're running under VTE.
         env.remove("VTE_VERSION");
 
+        // Don't leak these GTK environment variables to child processes.
         if (comptime build_config.app_runtime == .gtk) {
             env.remove("GDK_DEBUG");
             env.remove("GDK_DISABLE");