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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




  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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