topic Terminal Settings (Again) in Operating System - Tru64 Unix

Terminal Settings (Again)

Paul Stanard — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:07:04 GMT

I installed starnet x-windows client. When I login as bwuser using the x-win and run a terminal i get ^H when I use the backspace key. Any idea how to remedy this before my users complain. Its very annoying

Re: Terminal Settings (Again)

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:14:29 GMT

Hi,

try this:
stty erase "^?"

Michael

Re: Terminal Settings (Again)

Hein van den Heuvel — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:18:33 GMT

There is a mismatch between the stty settings and the terminal.
You can fix this in either place (but not both places :-).

For the unix fix check out:

check out 'man stty'

specifically look for thinkgs like ' + The string ^? sets the special character to .'
You may need: stty -erase ^h

In the terminal setup , look for some 'keyboard mapping' section. You can probably eitehr explicitly define what the 'backspace' key sends, or 'swap backspace and delete'.

You may aslo want to address this through 'terminfo' and friends: man terminfo

hth,
Hein.

Re: Terminal Settings (Again)

Ralf Puchner — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 03:58:52 GMT

you can remap the key via stty command as explained in your previous thread or setup your windows software to do the right job on the client side. But this depend on the implementation and possiblities of the client software.