Re: Debian, Putty and home and end keys
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 03:22:30AM +0100, Agust?n Fern?ndez wrote:
> Hi, I've been a long while trying to figure this out and I thought that
> this might be of use to others.
>
> If you want to connect to a debian box from Putty you may notice that
> the home and end keys don't work, and just write "~" to the terminal. In
> order to get them working you must set the terminal-type string (under
> connection, in the configuration) to be "linux" instead of the default
> "xterm".
I brought this up with Simon a little while ago in connection with
pterm, which is just PuTTY's terminal engine ripped out and ported to
Unix. It's on the PuTTY wishlist:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/xterm-keyboard.html
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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