Putty keyboard mapping

I'm using putty to ssh to a unix server I can't see any colours is one major annoyance also, if I press home/end, backspace etc it doesn't work.

I tried changing the Keyboard configuration, but none of the combinations I tried worked.

any ideas?

1 Answer

What type of server? Linux? Solaris? Something else?

For each key, the aim is to have tput <key name> produce the same output as pressing
Ctrl+V <key>.

1. Log on to your server
2. Run echo $TERM
   • it should say xterm or putty
3. Run tput kbs | cat -v
   • if it says ^H, change PuTTY settings so backspace sends ^H
   • if it says ^?, change PuTTY settings so backspace sends ^?
   • if it prints an error message, and you have TERM=putty, run TERM=xterm and try again
4. Run tput khome | cat -v
   • tell us the output and we can figure out which setting you need

See Configuring PuTTY for some hints and more details.