tmux and screen-256 TERM not supported on remote hosts
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I have set up my tmux to use screen-256colors and it works great with vim.
However, when I ssh to a remote host from within tmux, screen-256colors isn't recognized, so I'm getting errors like this:
E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo 'screen-256color' not known. Available builtin terminals are:
builtin_ansi
builtin_xterm
builtin_iris-ansi
builtin_dumb defaulting to 'ansi'
Other than editing each remote .bashrc (similarly to this suggestion), is there any way to set the TERM correctly and automatically on the remote host?
ssh terminal colors tmux
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I have set up my tmux to use screen-256colors and it works great with vim.
However, when I ssh to a remote host from within tmux, screen-256colors isn't recognized, so I'm getting errors like this:
E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo 'screen-256color' not known. Available builtin terminals are:
builtin_ansi
builtin_xterm
builtin_iris-ansi
builtin_dumb defaulting to 'ansi'
Other than editing each remote .bashrc (similarly to this suggestion), is there any way to set the TERM correctly and automatically on the remote host?
ssh terminal colors tmux
edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:17
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asked Jun 2 '12 at 20:45
Yoav Aner
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up vote
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I have set up my tmux to use screen-256colors and it works great with vim.
However, when I ssh to a remote host from within tmux, screen-256colors isn't recognized, so I'm getting errors like this:
E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo 'screen-256color' not known. Available builtin terminals are:
builtin_ansi
builtin_xterm
builtin_iris-ansi
builtin_dumb defaulting to 'ansi'
Other than editing each remote .bashrc (similarly to this suggestion), is there any way to set the TERM correctly and automatically on the remote host?
ssh terminal colors tmux
edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:17
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asked Jun 2 '12 at 20:45
Yoav Aner
3251510
I have set up my tmux to use screen-256colors and it works great with vim.
However, when I ssh to a remote host from within tmux, screen-256colors isn't recognized, so I'm getting errors like this:
E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo 'screen-256color' not known. Available builtin terminals are:
builtin_ansi
builtin_xterm
builtin_iris-ansi
builtin_dumb defaulting to 'ansi'
Other than editing each remote .bashrc (similarly to this suggestion), is there any way to set the TERM correctly and automatically on the remote host?
ssh terminal colors tmux
ssh terminal colors tmux
edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:17
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asked Jun 2 '12 at 20:45
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edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:17
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You can copy the necessary terminfo descriptions to remote hosts.
On the local system, dump the description to text format:
infocmp xterm-256color > xterm-256color.ti
infocmp screen-256color > screen-256color.ti
Copy to the remote host and compile:
tic xterm-256color.ti
tic screen-256color.ti
The descriptions will be stored in ~/.terminfo.
(infocmp and tic are part of the ncurses or ncurses-bin packages in most Linux distributions, as well as most BSDs that use ncurses.)
answered Jun 2 '12 at 20:59
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Thanks for the quick and neat answer! I wish I could +2 this one
– Yoav Aner
Jun 2 '12 at 21:38
Agree. Worked like charm !
– Yordan Georgiev
Mar 11 '14 at 10:09
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I have this in my .bashrc:
alias ssh='TERM=screen ssh'
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You can copy the necessary terminfo descriptions to remote hosts.
On the local system, dump the description to text format:
infocmp xterm-256color > xterm-256color.ti
infocmp screen-256color > screen-256color.ti
Copy to the remote host and compile:
tic xterm-256color.ti
tic screen-256color.ti
The descriptions will be stored in ~/.terminfo.
(infocmp and tic are part of the ncurses or ncurses-bin packages in most Linux distributions, as well as most BSDs that use ncurses.)
answered Jun 2 '12 at 20:59
grawity
231k35486544
Thanks for the quick and neat answer! I wish I could +2 this one
– Yoav Aner
Jun 2 '12 at 21:38
Agree. Worked like charm !
– Yordan Georgiev
Mar 11 '14 at 10:09
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up vote
39
down vote
accepted
You can copy the necessary terminfo descriptions to remote hosts.
On the local system, dump the description to text format:
infocmp xterm-256color > xterm-256color.ti
infocmp screen-256color > screen-256color.ti
Copy to the remote host and compile:
tic xterm-256color.ti
tic screen-256color.ti
The descriptions will be stored in ~/.terminfo.
(infocmp and tic are part of the ncurses or ncurses-bin packages in most Linux distributions, as well as most BSDs that use ncurses.)
answered Jun 2 '12 at 20:59
grawity
231k35486544
Thanks for the quick and neat answer! I wish I could +2 this one
– Yoav Aner
Jun 2 '12 at 21:38
Agree. Worked like charm !
– Yordan Georgiev
Mar 11 '14 at 10:09
add a comment |
up vote
39
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up vote
39
down vote
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You can copy the necessary terminfo descriptions to remote hosts.
On the local system, dump the description to text format:
infocmp xterm-256color > xterm-256color.ti
infocmp screen-256color > screen-256color.ti
Copy to the remote host and compile:
tic xterm-256color.ti
tic screen-256color.ti
The descriptions will be stored in ~/.terminfo.
(infocmp and tic are part of the ncurses or ncurses-bin packages in most Linux distributions, as well as most BSDs that use ncurses.)
answered Jun 2 '12 at 20:59
grawity
231k35486544
You can copy the necessary terminfo descriptions to remote hosts.
On the local system, dump the description to text format:
infocmp xterm-256color > xterm-256color.ti
infocmp screen-256color > screen-256color.ti
Copy to the remote host and compile:
tic xterm-256color.ti
tic screen-256color.ti
The descriptions will be stored in ~/.terminfo.
(infocmp and tic are part of the ncurses or ncurses-bin packages in most Linux distributions, as well as most BSDs that use ncurses.)
answered Jun 2 '12 at 20:59
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Thanks for the quick and neat answer! I wish I could +2 this one
– Yoav Aner
Jun 2 '12 at 21:38
Agree. Worked like charm !
– Yordan Georgiev
Mar 11 '14 at 10:09
add a comment |
Thanks for the quick and neat answer! I wish I could +2 this one
– Yoav Aner
Jun 2 '12 at 21:38
Agree. Worked like charm !
– Yordan Georgiev
Mar 11 '14 at 10:09
Thanks for the quick and neat answer! I wish I could +2 this one
– Yoav Aner
Jun 2 '12 at 21:38
Thanks for the quick and neat answer! I wish I could +2 this one
– Yoav Aner
Jun 2 '12 at 21:38
Agree. Worked like charm !
– Yordan Georgiev
Mar 11 '14 at 10:09
Agree. Worked like charm !
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Mar 11 '14 at 10:09
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I have this in my .bashrc:
alias ssh='TERM=screen ssh'
edited Nov 27 at 20:24
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I have this in my .bashrc:
alias ssh='TERM=screen ssh'
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I have this in my .bashrc:
alias ssh='TERM=screen ssh'
edited Nov 27 at 20:24
Blackwood
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answered Jun 11 '12 at 10:59
Ovidiu C.
711
I have this in my .bashrc:
alias ssh='TERM=screen ssh'
edited Nov 27 at 20:24
Blackwood
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answered Jun 11 '12 at 10:59
Ovidiu C.
711
edited Nov 27 at 20:24
Blackwood
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Blackwood
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answered Jun 11 '12 at 10:59
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