SuSE and PuTTY

jantman · 03-23-2007, 09:13 AM

Hello,

I have tried every possible combination of received character encoding that seems logical, and every keyboard setup in PuTTY.

Yet, when running PuTTY on Windows XP to connect to a SuSE 9.3-10.2 server, my "Home", "End", and some of the function keys don't work. This is a huge problem, as I can't use my emacs keybindings.

Any ideas? Has anyone else had this problem?

Thanks,
Jason

MensaWater · 03-23-2007, 09:41 AM

What is your termtype (echo $TERM) after login? You need to make sure that agrees with what putty is doing. The default that works best is "xterm".

jantman · 03-23-2007, 09:44 AM

echo $TERM is "xterm".

Terminal-type string in PuTTY is "xterm"

MensaWater · 03-23-2007, 09:58 AM

I don't do emacs but home, end and most function keys work for me in other apps.

Under PuTTY Keyboard Settings I have:
Standard for Home and End keys
Esc[n~ for Function keys

jantman · 03-24-2007, 02:29 PM

rxvt seems to work for the home key. Under this setting, the end key just prints the character "7". Under Standard, neither work.

I've tried Linux, VT100+, and ESC[n~ for function keys, and none of them work.

MensaWater · 03-24-2007, 05:46 PM

Home is doing 7? Do you have your num lock on? With that on the key shouldn't send a 7 unless there is something seriously wrong with your keyboard.

jantman · 03-24-2007, 09:05 PM

There's something seriously wrong with the PuTTY keymapping.

Home works fine on the local Windows machiene, but is translated incorrectly going to the remote machine, and is printing a "7" there.