[NTLUG:Discuss] terminal keystrokes

[jm]

Thanks for the lead. my $TERM was set to xterm; I exported to vt100 and
it still does the same thing, but only as myself.  When I su to root it
works perfectly but root also has $TERM set to xterm.

Thinking back, I didn't notice this behavior until I tried loading
Codeweavers plugins and WineX.  I've been thinking of reloading again
and trying some variations to get WineX to work - there seems to be some
conflict between them and one library or another that doesn't happen
when I do an (almost) absolute minimun install (WindowMaker but no Gnome
or KDE) - but before I do, is anyone aware of any conflicts between
either of those wine products that would cause the terminal problems
I've encountered?


On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 20:36, kbrannen at gte.net wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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