Konsole/xterm problems (connecting to SunOS 5 box)

Ast0r · Last edited by Ast0r on Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:12 pm; edited 4 times in total

At school we have a few Sun OS 5.9 (and one is 5.10) machines which provide terminal access to all students. Back when I first took the Unix class offered at school, I was mostly using Windows, so I used Putty to get my work done. There were some eccentricities in the term-type behavior, but I learned to deal with it. At the very least I came to expect at least a limited degree of terminal functionality (home, end, delete keys, etc).

However, now that I'm mostly using Linux (and I've enrolled after a 1 1/2 year abscense) I mostly use konsole (as I only boot Windows for games now) to connect to the Sun servers. My problem is that the following keys either produce no result, or product an undesirable resultl:

Janne Pikkarainen · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:59 pm Post subject:

Have you tried to change the terminal type? Try some of these in those Sun boxes:

Ast0r · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:05 pm Post subject:

Nope. None of those works.

EDIT: Oh, I forgot, I'm actually using konsole, not xterm. I think that is part of the problem. The Sun box is detecting the term type as follows: