I get the following annoyances when I do the following:

Running KDE on Slackware, I open terminal, ssh into a remote machine, start tmux.

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This doesn't happen running tmux sessions on my own Slackware machine and ssh into other machines, and It doesn't seem to happen on all of the machines that I ssh into and run tmux.

Is this some character set issue that I need to change on either my local Slackware workstation or the remote hosts that I have this problem with?

If so, then how/what/where do I change on my local machine? I would ask what I should do on the remote hosts but if those aren't Slackware machines it might be an off-topic question, but I'll take all comers.

This is what I have on my Slackware box at this time:

The remote machine in the image is a CentOS 6 machine, and what it should be displaying is a single, thin green horizontal line, and in the bottom portion a single, thin green vertical line.

I've noticed that I don't have this problem with screen, but I prefer tmux.

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Try a UTF-8 locale on your local machine:
My guess is that tmux is drawing lines with utf8-encoded characters that require two bytes.

I switched my character sets around via .profile, .bashrc, and a simple export on the command line.

No matter what I did, it didn't break tmux in Slackware locally. I ssh'd into the CentOS box from a debian box - same thing. on deb it's fine whatever character set I used.

I figured the same thing you were suggesting up until that point and then I ssh'd into the CentOS box from my Slackware workstation. Upon checking, the character set was en_US.UTF-8 so I...

from a bash prompt and guess what? tmux isn't broken anymore!

I wonder if that has anything to do with why tmux isn't in the standard RH/CentOS repos, and one has to get it instead from repoforge.

Now I'm wondering what I may have broken on the CentOS box elsewhere LOL!

Anyone have any ideas?