Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:40:00 +0300 From: Jordan Gordeev <jgordeev@dir.bg> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remote [ssh] Backspace] key gives me "^?" Message-ID: <46ED6A70.7080108@dir.bg> In-Reply-To: <20070916031452.GA64079@thought.org> References: <20070915010103.GA54302@thought.org> <20070914134128.GB33051@demeter.hydra> <46EC1D5C.3000208@u.washington.edu> <20070915202822.GA61976@thought.org> <20070915011204.GD35321@demeter.hydra> <20070916031452.GA64079@thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 07:12:04PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
>
>>On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 01:28:22PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>>
>>> Trying to use stty failed... .
>>
>>What terminal emulator are you using? It may be that, as was the case
>>with me when I was using aterm, I needed to use stty *and* needed to
>>change a configuration in the aterm makefile. It's possible that stty
>>alone won't do it, but stty in combination with something else *will*.
>>
>
>
> Sounds entirely rational. Because here and with CTWM I have
> simple xterms; on my "new tao" runnning Gnome as a manager, I use
> Konsole. Entrely to get the BEL in vi/nvi.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Are you getting audiable bell in vi/nvi when using xterm? I think I
didn't get that last sentence.
>
> I find that if I use Settings -> Keyboard and then select
> "FreeBSD Console", I come fairly close. Then [Backspace]
> backs up, but the characters are not erased as I space
> backways. UsingTerminal, it defaults to this.
Characters are not erased for me when I hit backspace in vi. In vim,
they are.
>
> Anther indicator thata Garrett is right is that by doing an
> "ssh -X tao", X gives me
>
> X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
> Major opcode of failed request: 100 (X_ChangeKeyboardMapping)
> Serial number of failed request: 7
> Current serial number in output stream: 12
> q3 20:06 <tao> [5032]
>
>
> If this gives annybody a clue, I'd be much obliged for some
> insights. .....
Would you please try running "stty erase '^H' erase2 '^?'" in Konsole
with default terminal settings and tell me how it behaves?
>
> gary
>
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>
>>--
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