Le 15/01/2025 à 07:23, Walter Dnes a écrit :
> Problem... the terminal (xterm) is not clearing the screen
> when I start a new program. This makes vim and other pseudo-textmode
> programs virtually unusable. I've checked and at the true text console
> command prompt (not GUI) on both machines "echo $TERM" gives "linux".
> When I ssh to the Devuan machine, "echo $TERM" gives "xterm". Example
> follows; any ideas for a solution?

    Not sure I understand exactly the problem, but it might be an issue
with terminfo since the applications you list use ncurses. Maybe you
haven't xterm in your terminfo database.

--     Didier