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anthillsocial

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[SOLVED] wayland - keyboard coms (ctrl+a, ctrl+e) not sent over ssh

I've been using wayland and labwc for the past few months and its generally been great.

When using the terminal ctrl+a,  ctrl+e, and other commands all work as expected.
However, when I SSH into a remote server ctrl+a, ctrl+e, backspace and other commands do not function.

Any suggestions for how to fix this?

Last edited by anthillsocial (2025-03-18 10:51:20)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] wayland - keyboard coms (ctrl+a, ctrl+e) not sent over ssh

Bogus $TERM environment or missing terminfo?
This most likely has nothing to do with "wayland" or "labwc", your terminal emulator however might be relevant.

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anthillsocial

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Re: [SOLVED] wayland - keyboard coms (ctrl+a, ctrl+e) not sent over ssh

It's the same for every terminal app I use which makes me suspect its a wayland issue.

When I switch back to X11 all is fine!
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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] wayland - keyboard coms (ctrl+a, ctrl+e) not sent over ssh

To be clear, you expect ctrl+a and ctrl+e to navigate the terminals cursor, not something completely unrelated, like window management?
Wayland is the ssh client, the ssh server is a constant?
Running xterm on (x)wayland, ctrl+a and ctrl+e work, but after "ssh foo.com" they don't?

(The overally problem isn't new and frequently happens when the ssh server cannot make use of the $TERM variable because it lacks the corresponding terminfo, home and end typically likewise don't work)

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anthillsocial

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Re: [SOLVED] wayland - keyboard coms (ctrl+a, ctrl+e) not sent over ssh

RE: you expect ctrl+a and ctrl+e to navigate the terminals cursor, not something completely unrelated, like window management?
Yes. Exactly.

So I just tried running xterm and ctrl+a and ctrl+e work as expected!

Though, its not working with foot or other wayland terminal apps, so it sounds like the "ssh server cannot make use of the $TERM variable".

So, what might be the fix so I can use foot in this case?

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] wayland - keyboard coms (ctrl+a, ctrl+e) not sent over ssh

Do you control the server?
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … -terminfo/

Otherwise your best shot is lying by setting a different $TERM (which depends on the degree to which foot is compatible w/ eg. xterm)
You might also get away w/ moving a multiplexer like tmux inbetween (assuming the server knows that, because its terminfo part of ncurses)

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anthillsocial

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Re: [SOLVED] wayland - keyboard coms (ctrl+a, ctrl+e) not sent over ssh

Brilliant advice - thanks!!

RE: Do you control the server?
Only partially - which is the route of the issue... I spun up another and the issue goes away!