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
next prev 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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