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From: William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSH xterm not working properly during install
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2020 07:47:27
Message-Id: 3682f7b8-9312-ef39-2249-909d7419767a@iinet.net.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] SSH xterm not working properly during install by Grant Taylor
1 On 8/7/20 12:58 pm, Grant Taylor wrote:
2 > On 7/7/20 10:40 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
3 >> Thanks, I missed that.  I'll try again and see how it goes.
4 >
5 > If you continue to have problems, I would very much like to know the
6 > particulars.
7 >
8 > My experience has been that changing the TERM environment variable has
9 > had very little success in fixing things like this.
10 >
11 > In fact, the only way that I see it working is if you are TERM is set
12 > to something MASSIVELY wrong for your actual terminal.  I.e. trying to
13 > send fancy xterm / ANSI control sequences to an old dumb terminal like
14 > a VT100.
15 >
16 > Seeing as how ANSI / XTERM* is effectively a significant super set of
17 > VT100, setting the TERM variable to an older less capable value does
18 > little other than limit features.
19 >
20 > That being said, I have seen problems when there is a size mismatch
21 > between what's running on the host and the terminal.  Sort of like if
22 > you re-sized the window after starting nano (et al.).  Things can get
23 > weird then.
24 >
25 > Beyond any of this, I'd be quite curious what problems you're having.
26 >
27 Try hitting the F11 key (full screen, hit again to go back )when logged
28 in to rewrite  the screen with the session rereading the screen sizes.
29
30 BillK