Terminal parameter hell
Submitted by dsufflin on January 27, 2008 - 17:15.
I'm having some trouble with SSHing from lab computers to bEddie. Using the Ubuntu terminal defaults (backspace: ASCII DEL) most command-line programs like vim and bash work fine. But, nCurses applications (such as mutt) expect Control+H for backspace. I can't set up my terminal so both are happy.
Is this a problem other people are experiencing? Is it a problem with my settings, or is bEddie incorrectly assessing my terminal?
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such things work for me on
such things work for me on beddie/teddie from my ubuntu systems. if others are having problems, i can take a look...
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Matt Englert
SOCIS System Admin
By lab, do you mean the Mac
By lab, do you mean the Mac lab? It's a common problem with terminal.app, and there's a preference to change to ^H which works for me.
I think there's a cleaner solution involving putting the right terminfo file on the server, but I can't find the link right now.
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Andrew
Ubuntu
No, stock Ubuntu (including the Linux labs).
I know of the preference to switch between ^H and ascii del, the problem is that neither works consistently: most programs expect ascii del, while ncurses-based apps expect ^H.
If other people aren't experiencing the same issue, could it be a user-specific configuration option at bEddie's end?