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Monday, May 7, 2007

Ubuntu screen backspace problem fix

Are you trying to use screen for some application and you have strange backspace behaviour? Mine was doing nothing when I hit the backspace except give me the famous Wuff --- Wuff ! To fix this you need to add something to either your /etc/bash.bashrc (global fix) or ~/.bashrc (local fix) like this:

alias screen='TERM=screen screen'
at

6 comments:

  1. Matt W.26 June, 2007 08:14

    Thank you so much! That was bugging the heck out of me.

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  2. Anonymous29 December, 2007 00:42

    thanks! :-)

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  3. Anonymous02 March, 2008 16:33

    Thanks, fix worked on Ubuntu 7.10. Too bad it is still there.

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  4. Eric D. Schabell04 March, 2008 10:16

    Luckily I have never seen this problem return after an update, the fix propagates fine through updates.

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  5. Anonymous31 October, 2008 21:06

    This didn't work for me on Ubuntu 8.04 Server LTS connecting from Mac OS X 10.5.5. Even tried to 'source /etc/profile' and/or 'source /etc/bash.bashrc'. Nothing I've tried has fixed this problem. Any other suggestions?

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  6. Eric D. Schabell31 October, 2008 22:54

    JRippy,

    You might want to try your ~/.bash_profile (or create one) as you are remotely logging in so ~/.bashrc is not being sourced.

    Hope this helps?

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