# SSH support for Ghostty

**URL:** https://community.kinsta.com/t/ssh-support-for-ghostty/4649
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** [January 6, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/ssh-support-for-ghostty/4649 "2025-01-06T12:41:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![austinginder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/austinginder/32/4136_2.png) [@austinginder](https://community.kinsta.com/u/austinginder)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/ssh-support-for-ghostty/4649/1 "2025-01-06T12:41:03Z")

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There’s a popular new terminal application called [Ghostty](https://ghostty.org). When SSHing into any Kinsta site with Ghostty certain keys, like delete, don’t reflect visually. This is apparently a known issue with a fix explained here: [https://ghostty.org/docs/help/terminfo](https://ghostty.org/docs/help/terminfo).

To summarize, the fix is to copy Ghostty’s terminfo to the remote machine like this:

```auto
infocmp -x | ssh YOUR-SERVER -- tic -x -

```

Would it be possible to include this with default Kinsta container so that new sites could automatically work properly with Ghostty?

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### Author: ![Adrian\_L](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/adrian_l/32/2810_2.png) [@Adrian\_L](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Adrian_L)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/ssh-support-for-ghostty/4649/3 "2025-01-07T02:28:14Z")

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Hi Austin 👋

I wanted to let you know that I submitted your feature request. While we can’t guarantee it will be implemented, I will keep you updated as soon as we have any news. Thank you for sharing your suggestion!

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### Author: ![thedavidthomas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/thedavidthomas/32/4532_2.png) [@thedavidthomas](https://community.kinsta.com/u/thedavidthomas)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2025, 10:56am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/ssh-support-for-ghostty/4649/4 "2025-03-07T10:56:55Z")

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I was having a similar issues with Ghostty  
the fix for me was on my mac in the ssh config file `~/.ssh/config` adding

```auto
Host *
  SetEnv TERM=xterm-256color

```

now the backspace key works as intended

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### Author: ![austinginder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/austinginder/32/4136_2.png) [@austinginder](https://community.kinsta.com/u/austinginder)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/ssh-support-for-ghostty/4649/5 "2025-03-07T15:51:17Z")

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Good find. Thanks for sharing!

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/kinsta/original/2X/8/80f8c4e56fecc02327a0964e6bf63a716483529f.png) [@system](https://community.kinsta.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/ssh-support-for-ghostty/4649/6 "2025-03-10T15:51:41Z")

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