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

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 01:48:42PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote

> 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.

  As I mentioned in another post, the "toe" command shows which TERM
types you terminal supports.  xterm (the app) doesn't support "linux"
TERM type.  The solution was to set TERM to "xterm" at both ends.
Basically, run "toe" on both machines and find a common entry that they
both support.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications