Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Invalid tmux term causes irssi issues

Today I finally switched my long-running IRC screen session to tmux. I rarely disconnect so I was simply waiting for a "good" time.

After a few minutes I noticed that my irssi scrollback was misbehaving; only half of my window would redraw when I pressed PgUp of PgDn.

I had manually set "TERM=xterm" in my bashrc; however, tmux advises only using "screen" or "screen-256color" as the term. I have no idea why I had specified term within my bashrc; removing the line and restarting tmux corrected the issue.

http://tmux.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tmux/tmux/FAQ

8 comments:

  1. Thanks for this!

    Not sure why xterm would be set in your case, but I needed to have xterm-256color set for tmux + vim to play nice with my color scheme. Sadly screen-256color created weird text artifacts (in gnome-terminal at least) so I went another route and created an alias to override TERM just for irssi:

    alias irssi='TERM=screen-256color irssi'

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  2. right on Chris. Great post, and thanks for sharing. Been driving me nuts. Also fixes broken current line highlighting. AF, nice workaround. I'll have to keep that in mind if I notice any similar negative affects. Interesting how 3 of 4 posts are on November 15. How crazy is that!

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    1. I'm glad you found the post useful drew. It's very odd, and interesting, that most 3 of 4 replies are on Nov. 15th and at least a year apart... thanks for pointing that out.

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  3. Thank you for your comment AF. I too have xterm-256color set for my tmux and vim driven workflow and my irssi's broken scrolling was fixed by your alias.

    irssi 0.8.17 (20141011 1044)
    tmux 2.0
    vim 7.4.488
    bash 4.3.39
    os x 10.10.5

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  4. More than five years after posting this, it's still helping people like me have a better tmux + irssi experience!

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  5. This also fixes weird scrolling issues with rtorrent as well, thanks!

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