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screen-profiles package

  1. Bug #317550
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Comment 1 for bug 317550

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Deeps (deepseth) wrote :

As seen on: http://<email address hidden>/msg01525.html

> PuTTY sends the same escape sequences as (IIRC) the linux console for
> F1-F4 by default. This is a problem because it sets its $TERM to 'xterm',
> which on many systems has different F1-F4 escape sequences. You may be
> able to fix yhe behavior by going into the PuTTY config, changing the
> setting about the function keys to (again, IIRC) 'xterm R6' and saving
> that in your default settings.

I can confirm that making this change made the F2/F3/F4 keybinds work in Putty 0.60/WinXP.