Dtterm and KDE

[Adam M.]

I recently installed KDE on my U60, to replace CDE. It runs great but
dtterm has begun to behave funny. ^c no longer works as a break (del
has taken over this function) and when I type the @ symbol on the
command line it behaves like ^u (clears the line). Anyone know what
is going on, or how to fix it? Also, does anyone know how to make the
front key (sun type 5 keyboard) work under kde?

thanks
-Adam

dttermkdecde

[Michael Piotrowski]

seve...@excite.com (Adam M.) writes:

> I recently installed KDE on my U60, to replace CDE. It runs great but
> dtterm has begun to behave funny. ^c no longer works as a break (del
> has taken over this function) and when I type the @ symbol on the
> command line it behaves like ^u (clears the line). Anyone know what
> is going on, or how to fix it?

dtterm can use the ttyModes resource to set up the terminal
characteristics, so that it's not necessary to call stty every time a
dtterm window is created. If you're using CDE, this resource will be
set automatically to something like this:

*ttyModes: erase ^H intr ^C kill ^U start ^Q stop ^S swtch ^@ susp ^Z

Now, if you're not running CDE, you'll either have to set the resource
yourself (in ~/.Xdefaults, or wherever you put them in KDE), or you'll
have to make sure that stty is run (e.g., in .kshrc, .bashrc or
whatever you're using).

--
Michael Piotrowski, M.A. <m...@dynalabs.de>
Public key at <http://www.dynalabs.de/mxp/pubkey.txt>

[bad_knee]

try this in your .bashrc (may work in .cshrc) I had the same
problem with icewm.

stty intr \^C
stty erase \^H
stty susp \^Z
stty eof \^D
stty kill \^U

And in ~/.Xdefaults
(! is a comment and only here for reference)

! The CDE fonts are only set by resources, so there is no unique switch
! that will override them. You should be able to set them by using the
! following resources, with your application's class instead of "Dtterm".
! Dtterm*font: terminal10
! Dtterm*Font: -misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
! Dtterm*XmFontList: -misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
!Dtterm*FontList: -misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
!Dtterm*FontSet: -misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
!Dtterm*XmText*FontList: -misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
!Dtterm*XmTextField*FontList: -misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
!Dtterm*userFontList: -dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-l*-*-*-*-*-m-*
!Dtterm*userFontList: -misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
!Dtterm*userFont: -misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
!Dtterm*Font: -misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
!Dtterm*systemFont: -misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
!Dtterm*textFontList: -misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1

Dtterm*textFontList: -schumacher-clean-*-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Dtterm*background: black
Dtterm*foreground: gray80

[Logan Shaw]

In article <e817ca4d.02111...@posting.google.com>, bad_knee wrote:
> try this in your .bashrc (may work in .cshrc) I had the same
> problem with icewm.
>
> stty intr \^C
> stty erase \^H
> stty susp \^Z
> stty eof \^D
> stty kill \^U

It might be a little more efficient to invoke stty only once instead
of 5 times:

stty intr ^C erase ^H susp ^Z eof ^D kill ^U

I've left out the backslashes because they're not needed when you
put a command in a .bashrc or .cshrc. The reason for this is that
they serve to protect the special "^" command history character,
and that character is only recognized when you're working interactively
with the shell (not when it's reading a file of commands).

- Logan

[bad_knee]

>
> It might be a little more efficient to invoke stty only once instead
> of 5 times:
>
> stty intr ^C erase ^H susp ^Z eof ^D kill ^U

hmm. That's cool. Definately cleans things up.

> with the shell (not when it's reading a file of commands).

man, that's going to be a time saver. Thanks!