On 02/03/07, Michael Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Maybe someone can help me with a problem that came about with a new
xubuntu install lastnight...
Basically it appears if I use screen from a terminal session in xorg,
soon as I launch screen session I can no longer use delete or
backspace keys.
If I ssh to the box from somewhere else using putty etc, this problem
doesn't exist. So as near as I can tell, it might be related to the
keyboard setup in the xorg.conf that might be in use (basically
detected by the installer).
The keyboard is a usb one, in this case a black microsoft oem
multimedia keyboard. Not concerned about the multimedia keys, just
would like backspace/delete to work in terminal session that happen to
have screen loaded in them.
It sounds like Screen is confused about your terminal.
What's the value of $TERM in the terminal before you launch screen?
Can you show us the output of "stty -a" both inside of and outside of screen?
As an interim workaround, see if ^H (ctrl+h) works as backspace inside
screen. Another workaround - "stty erase <ctrl+v><backspace>" will
probably fix backspace, but only for that one screen
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