ssh don't work

[Jacob]

if I type 'ssh -XC me@school' in the console, I get acces to my schools system and from here I can run the school-programmes at home e.g. matlab. But when I run a programme from my desktop, the arrow-keys, backspace, return and so on don't work. Everything works on my laptop.
What is wrong?
By the way, my desktop uses a PS2 keyboard if that makes any defference.
Regards
Jacob

[sky]

Re: ssh don't work

Hi,

And is it working with <Ctrl>+H ?

[Jacob]

Re: ssh don't work

yeah, ctrl+H works the same way as backspace...

[Jacob]

Re: ssh don't work

so ctrl+H works as delete, ctrl+J works as backspace... but don't anybody know how to make this work the right way?
Regards
Jacob

[sky]

Re: ssh don't work

the only way I know is to put your ~/.profile the following line :
stty erase ^?
After, logout and login again, you should be able to get it working...

I'm not sure about the "^?" I will check tomorrow at work... But try it and tell me how it goes.

[Jacob]

Re: ssh don't work

I've made a file; ~/.profile in which i've writed stty erase with and without the "^?" but no good unfortunately...
\\Jacob

[askrieger]

Re: ssh don't work

I'd suggest reading the man page for stty. It can do a lot more than you think. Experiment! ! If you really screw up you can return things to normal by typing "stty sane".

The first thing I'd do would be to run stty --all at school and save the result. I'd then make your keys at home do the same things that the keys do on your school system. However, I wouldn't make these permanent changes in your .profile. Instead I'd right a little one line script with the stty changes that need to interact with the school computer and run that script before running ssh.

[sky]

Re: ssh don't work

Hi,

Maybe you're right not to add it to .profile, I did at work and it's easier to work...
Anyway the line you can type when entering in ssh is :
stty erase <Ctrl>+<backspace>
It will then print a line like stty erase ^? or another character that you can copy in your .profile or not... up to you