How to best setup PuTTY for gentoo

NickDaFish

It had been bugging me for a while that the default settings in PuTTY with the default gentoo bash initrc leaves the HOME and END keys unmapped.
The easy fix appears to be
In the PuTTY configuration set:
Connection->'Terminal-type string' = linux
Terminal->Keyboard->Function keys->linux

When the ttype is set to 'xterm' the keyboard needs to be set to SCO and that messes with other apps. The first one I noticed was vim loosing pgup and pgdown.

I'm not sure if this breaks xterm mouse support as I don't use it.

wdoyle9752 · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 1:21 am Post subject:

Home and end keys work fine for me while in nano on 1.4rc2

Doyle

NickDaFish · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 3:31 pm Post subject:

And howabout when your just in Bash?

wdoyle9752 · Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2003 1:32 am Post subject:

hmm...doesn't work.

NickDaFish · Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2003 1:56 am Post subject:

Your catching on!

S_aIN_t · Guru Joined: 11 May 2002 Posts: 488 Location: Ottawa

when using bash the default mode is Emacs. therefore if you want to go to the beginning of the line you can press CTRL-a

to reach the end of the line in a hurry press Ctrl-e

budee · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2005 Posts: 8

Thank you for the tip, this does also fix my numeric keypad issues.
But this way unfortunately my putty window title never changes. (This way i cannot see for example emerge progress.)
Is there a way to make both keyboard and window title change properly working?