diff --git a/bash/env_exports b/bash/env_exports
index 7a2452c78..aae42aea8 100644
--- a/bash/env_exports
+++ b/bash/env_exports
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ export LC_CTYPE="C.UTF-8"
 export LANGUAGE="en_US:en"
 
 # Terminal type
-export TERM="alacritty"
+export TERM="xterm" # Necessary for proper line reversing in SSH connection
 # This is an attempt to get tofi to run `TERMINAL=true` .desktop applications in alacritty
 export TERMINAL="alacritty --config-file ${HOME}/.dotfiles/alacritty/host.toml -e"