Terminal Control Characters

Because dtterm only emulates a terminal, your control characters might not be what you are used to on a physical terminal. The ttyModes resource enables you to set control characters for your terminal emulator.

By default, Login Manager sets the control characters listed in Table 12-1.

Table 12-1 Terminal Control Characters

Control Name	Character	Definition
erase	Control+H	Backspace erases characters
intr	Control+C	Interrupt: Cancel the current operation and redisplay the command-line prompt.
kill	Control+U	Stop an operation or application.
start	Control+Q	Accept keyboard input: Used to continue an application that has been paused.
stop	Control+S	Do not accept keyboard input: Used to pause an application.
swtch	Control+@	Switch between layers in a shell.

For example, to interrupt an operation in progress, you press Control+C.

The syntax for the ttyModes resource is:

ttyModes: Control+C name

where name is the control, and C is the character. (^ is another way of expressing Control.) For example, the default value of ttyModes describing the preceding list is:

ttyModes: erase ^H intr ^C kill ^U start ^Q stop ^S swtch ^@

To Set Terminal Control Characters

1. Use the EditResources action to update the ttyModes resource.

2. Choose Restart Workspace Manager from the Workspace menu.