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From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] SSH xterm not working properly during install
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 15:35:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200708193546.GA1898@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c6a0945-60d3-4728-d814-9c684d84fc6b@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>

On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:58:48PM -0600, Grant Taylor wrote
> On 7/7/20 10:40 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > Thanks, I missed that.  I'll try again and see how it goes.
> 
> If you continue to have problems, I would very much like to know the 
> particulars.
> 
> My experience has been that changing the TERM environment variable has 
> had very little success in fixing things like this.
> 
> In fact, the only way that I see it working is if you are TERM is set to 
> something MASSIVELY wrong for your actual terminal.  I.e. trying to send 
> fancy xterm / ANSI control sequences to an old dumb terminal like a VT100.

  Once you know what questions to ask, things become easier.  Knowing
that it was a TERM mismatch, a bit of googling turned up the "toe"
command, which lists what your terminal supports.  It looks like the
install CD defaults to TERM="linux", which xterm (the app) doesn't
support, according to "toe".  Setting TERM on both ends to "xterm"
solves the problem.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-08 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-08  2:02 [gentoo-user] SSH xterm not working properly during install Walter Dnes
2020-07-08  4:06 ` tastytea
2020-07-08  4:40   ` Walter Dnes
2020-07-08  4:58     ` Grant Taylor
2020-07-08  7:46       ` William Kenworthy
2020-07-08 19:35       ` Walter Dnes [this message]
2020-07-08 13:48 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2020-07-08 19:42   ` [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] " Walter Dnes
2020-07-09  6:20     ` Walter Dnes
2020-07-09  2:05   ` [gentoo-user] " james
2020-07-09  2:41     ` james

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