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points by xnickb 4 days ago | 0 comments
I've had so many issues with SSH that I ended up ghosttying kitty.
[–] cybrox 4 days ago
Fixed with a single alias or a single ssh config entry.
[–] xnickb 4 days ago
If you mean the `alias ssh="kitty +kitten ssh"` then no, it's not fixed at all.

For example pikvm exists with read-only mounted filesystem. Having to dive into the details to figure out that the issue is kitty trying to write a file to make some obscure terminal features work doesn't strike me as good design.

`alias ssh="TERM=xterm-256color ssh"` fixes it but isn't mentioned in the docs.

[–] KetoManx64 1 day ago
> TERM=xterm-256color ssh

Yep, i switched to kitty a few months ago and Claude dug around and found the solution external to the docs. The developer is very opinionated about how he thinks you should use Kitty.

[–] Geezus_42 4 days ago
Ghostty made that obvious in the documentation for me. I haven't looked at the kitty docs, so Idk if they do as well.
[–] wzdd 4 days ago
It’s actually fixed, for everything, with a single kitty config line which tells it to use xterm-256color as the terminal type.

I respect the man’s ideological correctness, but it’s not 1982 anymore and nobody is going to add more terminal types.