irssi "Terminal doesn't support cursor movement"

I'm trying to run irssi under cygwin and it gives me this error:

$ irssi
Terminal doesn't support cursor movement
Can't initialize screen handling, quitting.
You can still use the dummy mode with -d parameter

It was working like yesterday. I don't know what I did to break it. Tried reinstalling it, didn't help.

cygwin
irssi

Alex

Posted 2011-07-13T03:14:54.200

Reputation: 213

How are you using cygwin? Are you using mintty or the Cygwin Bash Shell? What is your TERM environment variable set as? echo $TERM at the prompt – Darren Hall – 2011-07-14T15:24:46.170

Using Cygwin Bash Shell

$ echo $TERM returns

dumb – Alex – 2011-07-16T16:26:02.153

Try using mintty with a $TERM value of either vt100 or xterm instead. – Darren Hall – 2011-07-19T17:49:51.077

irssi "Terminal doesn't support cursor movement"

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