As much as I love Manjaro i3 Community edition, it does cause me a fair amount of pain when it comes to SSH. Being reasonable, this isn’t really the fault of the distro maintainer but the maintainers of rxvt-unicode I think.
If you’re a big user of SSH and ever log into CentOS/RHEL systems then you probably already know what I’m talking about.
The Problem
You SSH into a CentOS/RHEL system and find you can’t clear the screen (Ctrl + l) and you can’t use less properly.
Can’t use vim properly
On the remote host you can’t use less properly.
[root@centos7 ~]# less original-ks.cfg WARNING: terminal is not fully functional original-ks.cfg (press RETURN)
Can’t clear the terminal
On the remote host you can’t clear the terminal.
[root@centos7 ~]# [root@centos7 ~]# clear 'rxvt-unicode-256color': unknown terminal type. [root@centos7 ~]# [root@centos7 ~]#
The Solution
I really don’t have the long term solution here should be and personally I don’t feel this is something I should have to worry about. Regardless of who should fix it, until they do, here are a few of the method I use depending on the situation.
Change TERM on local machine
This is probably the easiest solution as there is no configuration on the remote host to do.
[andy@home-pc ~]$ echo $TERM rxvt-unicode-256color [andy@home-pc ~]$ TERM=xterm-256color [andy@home-pc ~]$ ssh [email protected] [root@centos7 ~]# clear
To use this method, you’ll have to make it permanent by adding export TERM=xterm-256color to ~/.bashrc.
[andy@home-pc ~]$ echo 'export TERM=xterm-256color' >> ~/.bashrc [andy@home-pc ~]$ source ~/.bashrc
You could also make the same change on the remote host but that might be a problem if you’ve got a lot of RHEL machines to administer for example!
Install rxvt-unicode-256color term info on remote host
[andy@home-pc ~]$ ssh [email protected] 'mkdir -pv ~/.terminfo/r' [andy@home-pc ~]$ scp /usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode-256color [email protected]:.terminfo/r [andy@home-pc ~]$ ssh [email protected] [root@centos7 ~]# clear
Install rxvt-unicode on remote host
For this to work the EPEL repository (epel-release) needs to installed first.
[root@centos7 ~]# yum install epel-release [root@centos7 ~]# yum install rxvt-unicode
Not ideal but hopefully with the above information you can figure something out that works for you. At least until someone somewhere fixes this issue! 😉
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