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+title: Sane Opensolaris Settings
+author: Holger Just
+date: 2010-02-05 12:46 UTC
+lang: :en
+tags: Technology
+cover: 2010/sane-opensolaris-settings/cover.jpg
+cover_license: 'Cover Image ["Sunset in the Park"](https://unsplash.com/photos/ocwmWiNAWGs) by [Jake Givens](https://unsplash.com/@jakegivens), [CC Zero 1.0](https://unsplash.com/license)'
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+Opensolaris has done some huge steps towards being usable by a normal person. Sadly there are still some things lacking sane defaults which I try to provide here. I will try to update this post if I stumble over more of these hiccups.
+
+## Correct colors on exit of an ncurses program
+
+If an ncurses program (like `nano`) exits, the default xterm-color does not properly restore the colors of the terminal. The background color is shown in a dark gray. For a quick relieve you can issue a short
+
+```bash
+tput rs1
+```
+
+As this is rather cumbersome, I think it is better to adjust out terminfo definitions.
+
+```bash
+TERM=xterm-color infocmp > /tmp/xterm-color.src
+sed -i -e 's/op=\\E\[100m,/op=\\E\[m,/' /tmp/xterm-color.src
+pfexec tic -v /tmp/xterm-color.src
+rm /tmp/xterm-color.src
+```
+
+The solution is from the [Opensolaris Bug](http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6902588), the rough steps from [Peter Harvey](http://blogs.sun.com/peteh/entry/fixing_terminfo_so_that_terminal).
+
+## Fixing some key bindings
+
+By default some essential key bindings do not work properly. This can be fixed by just reassigning them. The following statement has to be run as root.
+
+```bash
+cat >> /etc/profile <<BASH
+# home key
+bind '"\e[1~":beginning-of-line'
+# del key
+bind '"\e[3~":delete-char'
+# end key
+bind '"\e[4~":end-of-line'
+# pgup key
+bind '"\e[5~":history-search-forward'
+# pgdn key
+bind '"\e[6~":history-search-backward'
+BASH
+```
+
+You have to logout and login again for these settings to take effect. Alternatively you could just enter the individual `bind` statements into your current terminal.
+
+The bindings are from [Epiphanic Networks' Wikka](http://wiki.epiphanic.org/MiscOpenSolaris).