From: William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSH xterm not working properly during install
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 15:46:30 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3682f7b8-9312-ef39-2249-909d7419767a@iinet.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c6a0945-60d3-4728-d814-9c684d84fc6b@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>
On 8/7/20 12:58 pm, 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.
>
> 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.
>
Try hitting the F11 key (full screen, hit again to go back )when logged
in to rewrite the screen with the session rereading the screen sizes.
BillK
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-08 7:47 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 [this message]
2020-07-08 19:35 ` [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] " Walter Dnes
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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