st terminal support in tmux

A code snippet to transfer the terminfo to another server

March 6, 2019 · 1 min · Tamás Gál | Suggest Changes

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Symptoms

You try to attach to or create a new tmux session and you get the following error message:

open terminal failed: missing or unsuitable terminal: st-256color

Copy over your terminfo definition with this one-liner:

infocmp st-256color|ssh USER@TARGETHOST "mkdir -p .terminfo && cat >/tmp/ti && tic /tmp/ti"

That’s it…