[NTLUG:Discuss] terminal keystrokes

[kbrannen@gte.net]

jm wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using Mandrake 8.2, Gnome 1.4 and KDE 3.0.  No matter which terminal
> I use - gnome-terminal, konsole or eterm - I have the following problem:
> 
> Any time I want to up-arrow to a prior command, the terminal beeps and
> refuses to scroll back until I press the left-arrow, then I can scroll
> back through the command history.  If I step back into the existing
> command then try to right-arrow back to the end, everything gets
> converted to uppercase.
> 
> This happens in Gnome and KDE.  Anyone have any idea what got screwed up
> in this release, and how/where/what I need to change to get "normal"
> behavior back?

Sounds like you have an interaction problem between the programs and what you 
have $TERM set to.  As I don't use those programs, I don't know what to tell 
you to use, but try reading the docs (man pages) for those programs; they 
should tell you.

I use "xterm" and having my TERM set to "vt100" allows the arrow keys to work 
fine under bash.

Hmmm, I just fired up a "gnome-terminal", started bash (I normally use ksh), 
did "export TERM=vt100", did some commands, and then found the arrow keys seem 
to work just fine.  So try that value.

HTH,
Kevin