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Building an OpenSolaris Server: Fixing Page Up/Down, etc.

The Page Up/Down, Home, and End keys don’t work out of the box.  Very annoying when you’re trying to scroll through a man page.  Fortunately, it’s an easy fix.

Export the existing terminfo description:


james@opensolaris:~# env TERMINFO=/usr/share/lib/terminfo /bin/infocmp xterm > /tmp/xterm.ti

Add the missing key definitions:


james@opensolaris:~# echo '\tknp=\\E[6~, kpp=\\E[5~, kend=\\EOF, khome=\\EOH,' >> /tmp/xterm.ti

Compile the file:


james@opensolaris:~# env TERMINFO=/tmp /bin/tic -v /tmp/xterm.ti

And replace the existing xterm description:


james@opensolaris:~# mv /tmp/x/xterm /usr/share/lib/terminfo/x/xterm

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