Re: [gentoo-user] SSH xterm not working properly during install

[Grant Taylor <gtaylor@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net>]

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.

Seeing as how ANSI / XTERM* is effectively a significant super set of 
VT100, setting the TERM variable to an older less capable value does 
little other than limit features.

That being said, I have seen problems when there is a size mismatch 
between what's running on the host and the terminal.  Sort of like if 
you re-sized the window after starting nano (et al.).  Things can get 
weird then.

Beyond any of this, I'd be quite curious what problems you're having.



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