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Written by Oliver Andrich on 2025-01-21 at 07:40

What is the benefit of xterm-ghostty terminfo value? I mean except, that I either have to copy it to a ton of servers or update my ssh config? #ghostty

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Written by KungFuDiscoMonkey on 2025-01-21 at 07:43

@oliverandrich My understanding, is that it allows it to report all the features it supports. It's trying to do things technically correct at the cost of everyone having to configure things in the short term (as opposed to just reporting xterm and letting things mostly work)

That said, it looks like they did get their changes pushed upstream so at some undetermined date (based on distros) it won't be required.

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Written by Oliver Andrich on 2025-01-21 at 07:45

@kfdm Okay, thanks for the info. And I am happy they pushed it upstream, locally it works really fine but for remote access I added these lines now.

Host *
  SetEnv TERM=xterm-256color

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Written by KungFuDiscoMonkey on 2025-01-21 at 07:46

@oliverandrich Yeah, I'm tempted to use this workaround myself. That's primarily what keeps me from using it XD

Maybe I should do that and then set a reminder to check again in the future if I should remove that setting.

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Written by KungFuDiscoMonkey on 2025-01-21 at 07:45

@oliverandrich No idea how long it will take for most distros to update ncurses

Ghostty's terminfo entry has been merged into ncurses. As distros update their ncurses packages, Ghostty's terminfo entry will be available by default system-wide. This will take time to propagate.

https://ghostty.org/docs/help/terminfo

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Written by Oliver Andrich on 2025-01-21 at 07:48

@kfdm I have 14 years till my retirement. I am sure, I will still see servers without it. ;)

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Written by KungFuDiscoMonkey on 2025-01-21 at 07:51

@oliverandrich That is probably a very safe bet 🤣

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