[colug-432] Conflict btwn Screen and Putty

[George Larson]

Agreed about tmux.  I use tmux and gnu-screen literally every day on
multiple machines.  It's tmux where I can get it and screen as a fallback.

While we're at it, I don't use Windows much I recently I've started
thinking I might like MobaXterm more then PuTTY.
[  http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net  ]


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Jeff Stebelton <jeff.stebelton at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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