Fixing backspace in screen in terminal on OSX

rp — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:02:20 +0000

Screen is awesome, I am surprised I never bothered to learn about it earlier. It all stemmed from the fact that I was working on a pretty low powered VM and couldn’t afford to open multiple xterms on it. Later when I started SSH’ing into it the screen utility came in pretty handy, however when you are on OSX and ssh into a remote box and use screen, when you hit backspace, it doesn’t instead gets the screen to give you a ‘wuff — wuff’ and I am not kidding, that’s the default message.
The fix is simple, run this on the console, close and restart, sorted.

defaults write com.apple.Terminal TermCapString xterm

Making MacFusion work on Snow Leopard

rp — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:31:05 +0000

Its that time again, when you upgrade your OS and things break and you need to dig around to make it for again. My MacFusion broke after the upgrade, so after a bit of searching, this is the solution I found.
Quick currently running macfusion and go to System Preferences and click on the check box called ‘Show Beta Versions’ and then hit on upgrade.

After the update is done, run the following command to get rid of the dynamic lib sshnodelay.so

busybox:~ rp$ rm /Applications//Macfusion.app/Contents/PlugIns/sshfs.mfplugin/Contents/Resources/sshnodelay.so

That’s pretty much you need to do, restart MacFusion and it works again.I am currently running version 2.1.5 (Beta) but once its out of Beta you wouldn’t need to do any of this fancy stuff to get it working.

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Fixing backspace in screen in terminal on OSX

Making MacFusion work on Snow Leopard