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| author | Nicholas Marriott <nicholas.marriott@gmail.com> | 2009-12-17 10:00:15 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicholas Marriott <nicholas.marriott@gmail.com> | 2009-12-17 10:00:15 +0000 |
| commit | f9e513895c889b59f1d494eb57b475c215dc7036 (patch) | |
| tree | 229acd3dfed5030a16cc0cfb81efc8335c280f41 /FAQ | |
| parent | 99075aaa72210e7e331d18486a045e9a82756d33 (diff) | |
Add note about TERM, add putty Ctrl entry.
Diffstat (limited to 'FAQ')
| -rw-r--r-- | FAQ | 29 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@ tmux frequently asked questions +****************************************************************************** +* PLEASE NOTE: most display problems are due to incorrect TERM! Before * +* reporting problems make SURE that TERM settings are correct inside and * +* outside tmux. * +* * +* Inside tmux TERM must be "screen" or similar (such as "screen-256color"). * +* Don't bother reporting problems where it isn't! * +* * +* Outside, it must match your terminal: particularly, use "rxvt" for rxvt * +* and derivatives. * +****************************************************************************** + * How is tmux different from GNU screen? What else does it offer? tmux offers several advantages over screen: @@ -26,8 +38,9 @@ There are still a few features screen includes that tmux omits: * I found a bug! What do I do? -Please send bug reports by email to nicm@users.sourceforge.net. Please -include as much of the following information as possible: +Please send bug reports by email to nicm@users.sourceforge.net or +tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net. Please include as much of the following +information as possible: - the version of tmux you are running; - the operating system you are using and its version; @@ -216,4 +229,14 @@ One or more of the windows can be linked into multiple sessions manually with link-window, or a grouped session with all the windows can be created with new-window -t. -$Id: FAQ,v 1.32 2009-12-12 09:54:42 nicm Exp $ +* Ctrl and arrow keys doesn't work in putty! What do I do? + +putty inverts the sense of the cursor key mode on ctrl, which is a bit hard for +tmux to detect properly. To get ctrl keys right, change the terminfo settings +so kUP5 (Ctrl-Up etc) are the adjusted versions, and disable smkx/rmkx so tmux +doesn't change the mode. For example with this line in .tmux.conf (assuming you +have TERM set to xterm): + +set -g terminal-overrides "xterm*:kLFT5=\eOD:kRIT5=\eOC:kUP5=\eOA:kDN5=\eOB:smkx@:rmkx@" + +$Id: FAQ,v 1.33 2009-12-17 10:00:15 nicm Exp $ |