PuTTY keystrokes SOLVED

[James McDonald]

Michael Hipp wrote:

> Brad De Vries wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:02:26 -0600, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I use PuTTY when I'm on Winders and need to remote admin a Linux box.
>>> But I've found that on Ubuntu when working at the Bash command line the
>>> Home and End keys don't work. They just put escape sequences on the
>>> screen. The keys work normally in 'vi'. And the arrow keys work in 
>>> Bash.
>>>
>>> This works fine to my RH/FC servers so I don't think it's 
>>> particularly a
>>> problem with PuTTY.
>>>
>>> Both the Ubuntu and RH/FC systems are showing terminal type of xterm.
>>> I've tried every setting in PuTTY I could find.
>>>
>>> Any idea where to go to fix this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
>> I've had some luck changing the terminal type in PuTTY to Linux in the
>> Terminal | Keyboard screen and to "linux" in the Connection screen
>
>
> Thanks Brad! Setting "linux" in the Connection screen was all it took. 
> Can't believe I didn't see that, but I had spent all my time looking 
> at the keyboard settings.

I use PuTTY to connect to my home box aswell and I found with RH/Fedora 
X that you had to change the Translation options to UTF-8 other wise the 
thread view in mutt and some of the other character based apps had 
hideous symbols around them instead of the nice line drawings of boxes 
etc...

It's good to use for not publishing any ports but ssh to the outside 
world and using it's port forwarding features to access email etc at home...