Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:43:17 -0400 From: Alejandro Imass <ait@p2ee.org> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, kpneal@pobox.com Subject: Re: Terminal (TERM=xterm) on FreeBSD doesn not accept DEL or ALT key on/in a Linux YAST2 session Message-ID: <CAHieY7S4rRoXrJQz%2B1vT1aH5DDfgkPm1Uruuva1w8w4zczWqNg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F5E08A2.9090802@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <4F5DFF7B.1010006@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20120312142139.GA28538@neutralgood.org> <4F5E08A2.9090802@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:30 AM, O. Hartmann <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 03/12/12 15:21, kpneal@pobox.com wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:51:55PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: >>> Administering Linux Suse boxes makes it opf need to login onto those >>> boxes and use the well designed kiddy-cloaking scripting environment, >>> called YAST/YAST2. [...] > Of course, it is either setenv TERM xterm in csh or TERM=xterm in > bourne-alike shells. Hi Oliver, DEL and BS (Backspace) are one of those things where terminals have failed to standardize. Remember there are *many* layers of translations from the time you hit the key until it echoes on the terminal. First you have local keymaps which might be sending the wrong control sequence (e.g. Mac keyboard vs. regular PC). Then you have the character encoding of the terminal's OS, the you may have further translation in the protocol agents (ssh, telnet, etc.) then you have the remote shell's settings and encodings, etc. and many other things in between.... Take a look at this article and you will probably fix the problem, and it's probably not even on the FBSD side: www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html Cheers, -- Alejandro Imass
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