From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 28 8:43: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from clueless.crownhouse.net (clueless.crownhouse.net [195.217.221.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A30E37B71A; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 08:42:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon@witchspace.com) Received: from zebedee.innovision-group.com (HELO:garfield.innovisiongroup.com) by clueless.crownhouse.net; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:42:38 +0000 Message-ID: <00a601c0a1a5$79d74240$650e850a@innovisiongroup.com> From: "Jonathan Belson" To: "Mike Harding" , Cc: , References: <01022703121505.44481@panda.FreeBSDsystems.COM> <20010228162928.0E005E6ACA@netcom1.netcom.com> Subject: Re: strangeness with xterm Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:42:23 -0000 Organization: Jon's Place MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hiya > I find typing 'reset' at the command line stops this nonsense, but I > don't know why the xterm doesn't start up this way. > > Since an installation or rather an upgrade to 4.2-STABLE, I have been > encountering problems with X using xterm's. The problem demonstrates itself > when editing files with vi and even when installing apps like mod_php4. It > seems to be linked to the up and down scrolling keys. When scrolling up, many > times vi goes into insert mode and puts in an A and when scrolling down, it > will put in B's and C's. Addtiionally, the number pad keys will not input > numbers but rather letters. Yeah, I know this one 8^( I haven't found an answer (but I'll try the trick above). I think it's related to your current TERM setting, but I'm not running FreeBSD ATM so I can't check. -- C-YA Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message