[colug-432] Conflict btwn Screen and Putty

[Jeff Stebelton]

Heres a doc I put together today with the common commands from a web site I
found.

I second the tmux suggestion. I'm not a hard core user but thats why I
second it. Really quite easy to get started but powerful enough to satisfy
the heavy duty user with all kinds of customization, scripting etc.
On Mar 5, 2014 9:29 PM, "Chris Clonch" <chris at theclonchs.com> wrote:

>
> On 03/05/2014 09:23 AM, Joshua Kramer wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have an odd conflict between screen (the terminal multiplexer) and
> Putty, and this is something I've never seen before.
>
> The environment is RedHat 5.8.  It's worth noting that when I was using
> CentOS 5.x on a daily basis, I used Putty and screen all the time without
> encountering this problem.
>
> Normally, when you login via putty with bash as your shell, you can hit
> the up-arrow for the last command.  This sends the ascii code for ESC, then
> [A, and it goes across to bash (or whatever other program) just fine.  When
> you try this via screen, it looks like the terminal manager in screen takes
> "the ascii code for ESC, then [A" and turns it into the actual character
> string ^[[A, which is Caret + [ + [  + A.
>
> I was always able to sort out these kinds of issues on my own systems by
> setting TERM=xterm and the Putty terminal emulation to xterm.  That doesn't
> work in this case.  Where should I start looking for possible solutions to
> this problem?
>
>
> My guess is an issue with term settings between Putty, screen and your
> shell.  It has been ages since I've ran screen so my memory is a little
> fuzzy, but I believe screen would set your TERM to "screen".  You might
> check to see if you have term definition for screen:
>
> find /usr/share/terminfo -type f
>
> Not sure if it is an option, but you might switch to tmux from screen.  So
> many improvements over screen it is hard to start.
>
> http://tmux.sourceforge.net/
>
> -Chris
>
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