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
