topic Re: strange behavious in xterm in Operating System - HP-UX

strange behavious in xterm

Amit Dixit_2 — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:21:55 GMT

HI,
I have exceed installed on my system and
connected the session to an HP-UX server.

when i press "SHIFT+@" it deletes all the
characters of the current line at the command
prompt.

can anybody tell why or which setting causing
this

Re: strange behavious in xterm

Robert-Jan Goossens — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:34:06 GMT

check this link,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=108468

Best regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: strange behavious in xterm

harry d brown jr — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:35:12 GMT

it sounds like the "kill", do a:

stty -a

and look to see what "kill" is mapped to.

live free or die
harry d brown jr

Re: strange behavious in xterm

Steve Steel — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:45:27 GMT

HI

Look at stty

especially stty -a

This is used to set controle characters in /etc/profile and .profile

Steve Steel

Re: strange behavious in xterm

Muthukumar_5 — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:34:13 GMT

I hope stty is not recognizing @ character there.

stty eol "^@"

Put this in your xwindows profile file, so that it will be activated for every login.

HTH.