No backspace key, Window opens tiny at first

[Paulie420]

M-griffin - great work!!! I just found EtherTerm from the Syncterm website... I hadn't heard of it. I run 2o fOr beeRS bbS - sure would make a #2 in the dialing directory!! [20ForBeers.com:1337]

I'm using Linux Mint [by choice], I know how to read make output but it might be nice to add pre-requisites to the README;
yaml-cpp
libssh-dev
sdl2-dev

I'm using a 2256x1504 display at 1.25x - the EtherTerm window opens up in almost a postage stamp sized window. Once I maximize or resize the window, its perfect. Connection open in as tiny a window. Would be nice to be able to choose window(s) size in a config file or otherwise.

My backspace key doesn't work when connected to a BBS. DEL works, AND I was editing a message and did a bunch of PGUP/DEL/etc etc - at once point the backspace key STARTED working, but theres something there... 95% of the time, and at connection start, backspace doesn't work on my system.

I really like the software - has great scene feels; thanks for developing EtherTerm - it'll be installed on my machines. (I'll test these issues on MacOS/Windows, too...)

[M-griffin]

Hi @Paulie420,

Thank you for taking the time to submit some feedback. It's been quite a while since I've worked on this project. Thanks for the callout on the resolution. I run a VMWare with Linux Mint for my linux development, but being Vmware it probably doesn't have that same issue with resolution on startup and my old computer was 1920x1080, I'll have to test it sometime on my new computer and see if i can put some configuration in for it.

Regarding the Backspace key, if you open up the assets subfolder, and review the dialing_directory.yaml file, which is the configuration for each system being called. You'll noticed key_map: VT100 is some cases or ANSI in other cases. This controls the character sequence for DEL and BACKSPACE between windows and Linux BBS hosts. If you are having issues with ANSI for example, I recommend testing it with VT100, that flips the key sequences passed from the client to the server.

I don't recall if I ever documented some of this stuff. But let me know if this works for you and solves that problem.

Example from my Dialing Directory Yaml file, I have some systems set as VT100 and others as ANSI