Re: putty x11 forwarding

Chuck <skilover_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I'm having a strange problem with x11 forwarding on putty and was hoping
someone could help me out. I'm not even sure if this is the right ng to
be asking in.

I'm using putty 0.59 on Win XP pro. X11 forwarding is turned on. I can
run xterm and xclock just fine. But when I run Oracle's installer,
neither the backspace key nor the cursor keys work. They don't do

For the backspace, try using ^H ( Ie hold down the control key and then
typing the h key). This is the standard until the baleful influence of the
Ancient Dec VT100 keyboard finally overcame all. Now most distributions use
^? as the backspace key, but some programs still use ^H.

The cursor keys are/maybe another issue.

anything. If I ssh into the same server with cygwin's openssh client,
everything works fine. What do I need to set in putty to get it to
recognize the backspace key correctly. BTW if I launch an xterm,
backspace works fine.
.

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