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Getting Ghostty to Work on Synology

Trying the Ghostty terminal, I hit a problem over SSH to a Synology NAS: arrow-key history recall and clear don’t work, because Ghostty sets TERM to xterm-ghostty and Synology lacks the matching terminfo. The practical fix is overriding TERM to xterm-256color via an ssh config SetEnv entry, which can be wildcarded across multiple hosts. The terminfo installation method Ghostty officially recommends fails on Synology’s minimal DSM...