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Daniel Pfeiffer 2018-12-20 00:31:57 +01:00
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Some special symbols are rendered small/truncated in kitty?
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The number of cells a unicode character takes up are controlled by the unicode
standard. All characters are rendered in a single cell unless the unicode
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infocmp xterm-kitty | ssh myserver tic -x -o \~/.terminfo /dev/stdin
If you are behind a proxy (like Balabit) that prevents this, you must redirect the
1st command to a file, copy that to the server and run ``tic`` manually. If you
connect to a server, embedded or Android system that doesn't have ``tic``, copy over
your local file terminfo to the other system as :file:`~/.terminfo/x/xterm-kitty`.
Really, the correct solution for this is to convince the OpenSSH maintainers to
have ssh do this automatically when connecting to a server, so that all
terminals work transparently.
have ssh do this automatically, if possible, when connecting to a server, so that
all terminals work transparently.
Why is Shell command line editing a mess?
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Make sure the TERM environment variable, is ``xterm-kitty``. And either the
TERMINFO environment variable points to a directory containing :file:`x/xterm-kitty`
or that file is under :file:`~/.terminfo/x/`.
Note that ``sudo`` might remove TERMINFO. Then setting it at the Shell prompt can
be too late, because command line editing may not be reinitialized. In that case
you can either ask ``sudo`` to set it or if that is not supported, insert an ``env``
command before starting the Shell, or, if not possible, after sudo start another
Shell providing the right terminfo path:
sudo … TERMINFO=$HOME/.terminfo bash -i
sudo … env TERMINFO=$HOME/.terminfo bash -i
TERMINFO=/home/ORIGINALUSER/.terminfo exec bash -i
If you have double width characters in your prompt, you may also need to set a
UTF-8 locale, like:
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
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