On 06/25/2017 02:34 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 01:51:01PM -0500, Glenn Holmer wrote: >> I've got a freeshell.org account, and they're running NetBSD. When I SSH >> into that account, the terminal looks fine, but when I start irssi, the >> entire screen blinks on and off about once a second. This is from my >> Debian Stretch box running KDE, with konsole as terminal and bash as >> shell. >> >> I've got another machine here that runs GNOME (under Fedora); I tried >> the same thing using gnome-terminal and the screen didn't blink when I >> started irssi. >> >> Can anyone offer some suggestions to solve this? > > It might be as simple as a bad terminal description. What is $TERM set > to? Try setting it to something different (TERM=xterm irssi -or- > TERM=vt100 irssi) and see if that fixes things.
Sorry, answer was supposed to go to the list: Thanks, that worked (SSH to freeshell.org, then "TERM=xterm irssi"). -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."