Terminal (TERM=xterm) on FreeBSD doesn not accept DEL or ALT key on/in a Linux YAST2 session

2012-03-12 Thread O. Hartmann
Administering Linux Suse boxes makes it opf need to login onto those boxes and use the well designed kiddy-cloaking scripting environment, called YAST/YAST2. The problem I face now is that I can not use DEL key to delete characters or even use the ALT key to enforce actions like ALT-e or ALT-d

Re: Terminal (TERM=xterm) on FreeBSD doesn not accept DEL or ALT key on/in a Linux YAST2 session

2012-03-12 Thread O. Hartmann
On 03/12/12 15:21, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:51:55PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: Administering Linux Suse boxes makes it opf need to login onto those boxes and use the well designed kiddy-cloaking scripting environment, called YAST/YAST2. The problem I face now is that

Re: Terminal (TERM=xterm) on FreeBSD doesn not accept DEL or ALT key on/in a Linux YAST2 session

2012-03-12 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:30 AM, O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 03/12/12 15:21, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:51:55PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: Administering Linux Suse boxes makes it opf need to login onto those boxes and use the well designed

Re: Terminal (TERM=xterm) on FreeBSD doesn not accept DEL or ALT key on/in a Linux YAST2 session

2012-03-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:43:17AM -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: Take a look at this article and you will probably fix the problem, and it's probably not even on the FBSD side: www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html not really (that page gives a lot of poor advice, particularly with regard to

Re: Terminal (TERM=xterm) on FreeBSD doesn not accept DEL or ALT key on/in a Linux YAST2 session

2012-03-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:30:58PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: And you are using xterm (not rxvt)? No, pure and plain and conservative xterm as it comes with the port and no extravagant terminal thingy. Linux generally uses DEL (127) and (almost) everyone else uses BS (8). Adding to the