diff --git a/konsole-4.14.3-xterm-256color.patch b/konsole-4.14.3-xterm-256color.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1eb9651
--- /dev/null
+++ b/konsole-4.14.3-xterm-256color.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+diff -up konsole-4.14.3/src/Profile.cpp.xterm-256color konsole-4.14.3/src/Profile.cpp
+--- konsole-4.14.3/src/Profile.cpp.xterm-256color	2014-10-31 23:17:02.000000000 -0500
++++ konsole-4.14.3/src/Profile.cpp	2014-12-23 09:16:18.242526791 -0600
+@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ FallbackProfile::FallbackProfile()
+     setProperty(Command, qgetenv("SHELL"));
+     setProperty(Arguments, QStringList() << qgetenv("SHELL"));
+     setProperty(Icon, "utilities-terminal");
+-    setProperty(Environment, QStringList() << "TERM=xterm");
++    setProperty(Environment, QStringList() << "TERM=xterm-256color");
+     setProperty(LocalTabTitleFormat, "%d : %n");
+     setProperty(RemoteTabTitleFormat, "(%u) %H");
+     setProperty(ShowTerminalSizeHint, true);
+diff -up konsole-4.14.3/src/Pty.cpp.xterm-256color konsole-4.14.3/src/Pty.cpp
+--- konsole-4.14.3/src/Pty.cpp.xterm-256color	2014-10-31 23:17:02.000000000 -0500
++++ konsole-4.14.3/src/Pty.cpp	2014-12-23 09:16:43.828569726 -0600
+@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ void Pty::addEnvironmentVariables(const
+ 
+     // extra safeguard to make sure $TERM is always set
+     if (!isTermEnvAdded) {
+-        setEnv("TERM", "xterm");
++        setEnv("TERM", "xterm-256color");
+     }
+ }
+ 
diff --git a/konsole.spec b/konsole.spec
index 3aff87b..f273636 100644
--- a/konsole.spec
+++ b/konsole.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Name:    konsole
 Summary: KDE Terminal emulator
 Version: 4.14.3
-Release: 1%{?dist}
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 
 # sources: MIT and LGPLv2 and LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+
 License: GPLv2 and GFDL
@@ -14,9 +14,13 @@ URL:     http://konsole.kde.org/
 %endif
 Source0: http://download.kde.org/%{stable}/%{version}/src/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
 
+## upstreamable patches
 # do not store history in /tmp
 # http://bugzilla.redhat.com/990197
 Patch1: konsole-4.14.1-history_cache_instead_of_tmp.patch
+# TERM=xterm-256color default
+# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1172329
+Patch2: konsole-4.14.3-xterm-256color.patch
 
 BuildRequires: desktop-file-utils
 BuildRequires: kdelibs4-devel >= %{version}
@@ -87,6 +91,9 @@ desktop-file-validate %{buildroot}%{_kde4_datadir}/applications/kde4/konsole.des
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Dec 23 2014 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 4.14.3-2
+- TERM=xterm-256color default (#1172329)
+
 * Sun Nov 09 2014 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 4.14.3-1
 - 4.14.3