Home, end and other keys do weird stuff with putty

Ashygan · 21. September 2014

Hi,

With a recent OMV 1.0 installed on top of a fresh wheezy distrib, I connect to this server from a Windows 7 with putty through SSH. Whenever I hit the home or end key to go to the beginning/end of the command line, I get a tilda instead. I also noticed I don't have any colors in the shell (like I should have with a ls command).
I saw some solutions on the net, but I thought that maybe altering the xresource or screenrc might have an impact on OMV interacting with the shell.
I think this is specific to OMV, because on other Wheezy installations, I don't have this problem.

How can I get back my home and end keys ?

ryecoaaron · 21. September 2014

OMV doesn't do anything different with the keyboard than Wheezy. I would guess it is just a different keyboard selected during installation.

KM0201 · 21. September 2014

Zitat von Ashygan

Hi,

With a recent OMV 1.0 installed on top of a fresh wheezy distrib, I connect to this server from a Windows 7 with putty through SSH. Whenever I hit the home or end key to go to the beginning/end of the command line, I get a tilda instead. I also noticed I don't have any colors in the shell (like I should have with a ls command).
I saw some solutions on the net, but I thought that maybe altering the xresource or screenrc might have an impact on OMV interacting with the shell.
I think this is specific to OMV, because on other Wheezy installations, I don't have this problem.

How can I get back my home and end keys ?

Well,the keyboard shortcuts you mentioned work fine for me. As for the colors... wouldn't this be a client setting, as opposed to a server setting? I've never really tried this, so I don't know.

Solo0815 · 22. September 2014

add this to your /root/.bashrc

Code

alias ls='ls --color'

login again and try ...

davidh2k · 22. September 2014

Zitat von Solo0815

login again and try ...

Or do source ~/.bashrc

Greetings
David

Ashygan · 23. September 2014

Thanks for the answers. Solo0815 was right for the colors.
For the home/end keys, the problem was that my root user had a /root/.inputrc file without the required lines :
"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\e[4~": end-of-line

My other wheezy installation didn't have such a file. I removed it and everything works as normal. I just wonder how the hell did I get this file on this installation.

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