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- update full-screeen terminal question answer to be accurate now that we use
  xterm and not cons25

Submitted by:	Daniel O'Connor
Mangled by:	me
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Eitan Adler 2015-04-02 06:24:54 +00:00
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</question>
<answer>
<para>The remote machine may be setting the terminal type
to something other than the <literal>cons25</literal>
terminal type required by the &os; console.</para>
<para>The remote machine may be setting the terminal type to
something other than <literal>xterm</literal> which is
required by the &os; console. Alternatively the kernel
may have the wrong values for the width and height of the
terminal.</para>
<para>There are a number of possible work-arounds for this
problem:</para>
<para>Check the value of the <envar>TERM</envar>
enviroment variable is <literal>xterm</literal>. If the
remote machine does not support that try
<literal>vt100</literal>.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>After logging on to the remote machine, set the
<envar>TERM</envar> shell variable to
<literal>ansi</literal> or <literal>sco</literal> if
the remote machine knows about these terminal
types.</para>
</listitem>
<para>Run <command>stty -a</command> to check what the
kernel thinks the terminal dimensions are. If they are
incorrect, they can be changed by running
<command>stty rows <replaceable>RR</replaceable> cols
<replaceable>CC</replaceable></command>.</para>
<listitem>
<para>Use a VT100 emulator like
<application>screen</application> at the &os; console.
<application>screen</application> provides the
ability to run multiple concurrent sessions from one
terminal.
Each <application>screen</application> window behaves
like a VT100 terminal, so the <envar>TERM</envar>
variable at the remote end should be set to
<literal>vt100</literal>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Install the <literal>cons25</literal> terminal
database entry on the remote machine. The way to do
this depends on the operating system on the remote
machine. Refer to the system administration manuals for the
remote system.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Fire up an X server at the &os; end and login to
the remote machine using an X based terminal emulator
such as <command>xterm</command> or
<command>rxvt</command>. The <envar>TERM</envar>
variable at the remote host should be set to
<literal>xterm</literal> or
<literal>vt100</literal>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Alternatively, if the client machine has
<package>x11/xterm</package> installed, then running
<command>resize</command> will query the terminal for the
correct dimensions and set them.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>