From: james <garftd@verizon.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SSH xterm not working properly during install
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 22:41:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4f5a144a-45cd-4caf-3ff8-31b565eb3bc7@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93cd6b53-5667-fadb-5b5b-92804d2ee965@verizon.net>
On 7/8/20 10:05 PM, james wrote:
> On 7/8/20 9:48 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2020-07-08, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Today I decided to ssh into the install, and cut + paste stuff into
>>> an ssh xterm into the install.� This went flying along really fast
>>> until I went to emerge after having updated make.conf.� I got a slew
>>> of weird errors.
>>
>> I've been installing Gentoo that way for almost 20 years and never had
>> a problem.� I very rarely use xterm though -- I used aterm for years,
>> switched to rxvt, and then to urxvt.
>>
>>> It turns out that make.conf was majorly butchered after I had done
>>> some "simple" edits over ssh.� This seems to be a terminfo problem, so
>>> it may apply to more than just nano.
>>
>> --
>> Grant
>>
>>
>
>
> x11-misc/urxvtconfig
>
> might be useful to you
>
> https://github.com/daedreth/URXVTConfig
>
> hth,
> James
AND 'rich' looks like it picks up color to fancy features, if somebody
figures out how to set it up
on gentoo:
https://pypi.org/project/rich/
"Render rich text, tables, progress bars, syntax highlighting, markdown
and more to the terminal "
This one has been on the 'todo' list for me for a while.
hth,
James
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-09 2:42 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 ` [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 [this message]
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