Solution to Being Unable to Clear Screen

This is usually caused by unsupported terminal. For example, when I log in to the remote server through Ghostty, typing clear or Ctrl - l usually reports an error.

The solution is to set the TERM variable to a terminal that can be recognized. For example, xterm-256color. In fish, we can set

set -gx TERM xterm-256color

In zsh or bash, we can set

export TERM=xterm-256color

And then we can clear and C-l.

Date: 2026-08-28 Fri

Author: ArcaLunar