From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 12 15:43:18 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F1D7106566C for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:43:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aimass@yabarana.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8E908FC1C for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:43:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iahk25 with SMTP id k25so9102605iah.13 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:43:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :x-gm-message-state; bh=mZp0zj7veTVY2aUORJn794z2KY0NgVPAlcbf5uBRQXo=; b=pL6koimmiQYNPf6JrpNgU+UyP4NIYwcfEP+uHYkTFAbSyP4QeDfGrMnQAbN5ydgagO mxW0WNGZP8tU8xjxlAYE8RlrQe3GoFketUdv2aKN8WxKFlofoME2YLHfBDmMj39xlebb OEdExnoCWF8FEdg2983u/wjpREGSWr9KKCbTMRxPZU6dP19Xxn0m149WPgdOiZLQW65H PKQs2CqIcF1rPQYj4C2maSc1nR6sVFNWELon1qOZ9WLiUwSd8MA0B8uz6AVyQZzjNv3q 3Ed/lVnhDa82ii8k8UOw6RMLpjr1tjzz8ddJYt18svSvR0qwRJj8GAe9ysl7kTHoCo9H IfvA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.180.66 with SMTP id bt2mr13277338icb.56.1331566997433; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:43:17 -0700 (PDT) Sender: aimass@yabarana.com Received: by 10.231.74.138 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:43:17 -0700 (PDT) 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> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:43:17 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: qm53FJxy0d2phVfqshkmDI8INGQ Message-ID: From: Alejandro Imass To: "O. Hartmann" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQn9/uG2DROjhTamcBt8Vrb3rq8fYOhmpSuo4ShGhBKQtw+75FpJXDULvwDdK9MwrD3P7aqk 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 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:43:18 -0000 On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:30 AM, O. Hartmann 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