tmux and konsole characters

Joshua Isom jrisom at gmail.com
Sat Feb 2 17:30:46 UTC 2013


On 2/2/2013 11:05 AM, Andre Goree wrote:
> Thanks, I'm actually using bash as a shell, probably should've mentioned
> that.  Anywho:
>
> [agoree at desktop ~]$ grep TERM .*
> .bash_history:echo $TERM
> .profile:# Setting TERM is normally done through /etc/ttys.  Do only
> override
> .profile:# TERM=cons25;         export TERM
>
> [agoree at desktop agoree]$ echo $TERM
> xterm
>
> Looks like it's not being set in .profile (it's commented), and echoing
> $TERM displays "xterm".  So it would appear I'm not changing it anywhere.
>
> I tried the following, and get the same weird looking characters in
> place of lines when connecting to the remote box (which is running
> Linux, btw):
> [agoree at desktop agoree]$ echo $TERM
> xterm
> [agoree at desktop agoree]$ export TERM=xterm-color
> [agoree at desktop agoree]$ ssh sideswipe-dt
> Last login: Sat Feb  2 10:34:53 2013 from 172.16.10.246
> [agoree at sideswipe-DT ~]$ tmux attach
>

What's your $TERM after you ssh to sideswipe-dt?


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